Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There are more Americans against the legalized murder in Viet Nam than you think. What shall it profit us if we win the war but lose the people...
...Dead theologians [Oct. 22] are spinning the rope with which to hang themselves. If, as they claim, man's intelligence was used to create a God who does not exist, it could then be argued that man's intelligence is now being used to murder a God who does. Saying God is dead is about as intelligent as saying that a city's electrical power is dead when your own reading light doesn't work...
...CRIME. To counter the city's never-ending crime-a theft every three minutes, an assault every twelve, a rape every six hours, a murder every 14-' Lindsay proposed to enlarge the police force and build a "massive mobile patrol system" by doubling the number of patrol cars; a squad car would patrol each block in high-crime areas every two minutes...
...that the theme of religious faith inspired him to outdo himself? It is undeniable that, over the years, this theme has stimulated playwrights to remarkable and frequently their best work-from Prometheus Bound, Antigone and The Bacchae through Tartuffe, Athalie, Faust and Brand to Easter, Partage de Midi, Murder in the Cathedral, Galileo, Billy Budd, A Sleep of Prisoners, and Waiting for Godot...
Shaffer has, however, departed in certain instances from Prescott. Some deviations are inconsequential details, but others are important. Shaffer has moved the murder of Atahuallpa's brother Huascar ahead in time. And he has made Pizarro eventually a more sympathetic character than emerges from Prescott, who rightly stated that "the treatment of Atahuallpa, from first to last, forms undoubtedly one of the darkest chapters in Spanish colonial history." But these changes are invariably justified dramaturgically, Shaffer has retained, compressed, omitted, and changed the right things to insure a better play...