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...mute with a desperate love of children. In Brecht's mordant view, kindness is voiceless in the world. Kattrin performs the only noble and impassioned act in the play when she mounts a platform and beats out a drum tattoo warning a sleeping town of ambush. A single musket shot silences her. Zohra Lampert detonates this episode shatteringly after having made her Kattrin an intaglio of forlorn brooding poignance. As Anne Bancroft cradles her daughter in marble stillness, the scene has the desolating sadness of a Piet...
...Blackfeet who came to trade there. One dawn the Blackfeet were attacked by neighboring tribes, jealous of the Blackfeet's trading privileges. Bodmer sketched the massacre-the best eyewitness scene of an Indian fight ever made-while the prince set down notes: "We were awakened by musket-shot upon which we rose in haste and loaded our fowling pieces with ball...
...that a Lutheran seminary in which he was lunching had been used as a Union observation post, he nonchalantly rattled off the name of Major General John Buford as the post's commander. Moving south, Barth paused on a battlefield near Richmond. Va., raised a century-old Yankee musket to his shoulder, and proved himself the equal of an earlier Swiss marksman by scoring a bull's-eye on a white handkerchief 100 ft. away. Cried he: "Like William Tell...
Under a Blanket of Blue. The result was a chase along the Iroquois trail to Lake Champlain-Onsegongo in swift-moccasined pursuit with three bullets in his musket. Kateri eluded him, however, and spent the rest of her short life among the Christian Indians of Caughnawaga, near Laprairie in Canada...
Standing straight as an old Napoleonic musket. France's iron-eyed Navy Captain Philippe Henri Xavier Antoine de Gaulle, 39, only son of France's iron-willed President, took over command of the convoy ship Le Picard in a ceremony...