Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presence in his native place; the fact that he cannot return here in peace and roam as I've done in absolute stillness past his boyhood house, the neighboring hovels, the empty woods, the acres of graves just up the road at the site of the prison at Andersonville, where almost 13,000 men died in 14 months to feed brands of ignorance and malice still ravenous now as then-or spend a long evening in a house on the edge of town with friends and kin joining other local boys (Mac Lee and "Amos" Austin) in songs...
...found in their apartment. Reiner Paul Fülle, 40, an accountant for a Karlsruhe plant that recycles nuclear fuel, was caught by the Bundeskriminalamt, West Germany's equivalent of the FBI. But when the lone agent assigned to drive Fülle to jail reached the prison and got out of the car the prisoner, who unaccountably had not been manacled, leaped out too and disappeared into the darkness. Embarrassed officials insisted that the escape was the result of stupidity, not collusion...
Only once does the BSC seize the play's dark side and expose it to the audience. As Pompey the whoremaster (Mark Cartier) gives the audience a tour of the riff-raff in the prison, he opens trapdoors in the stage floor which serve as cell doors--and long arms reach out, grabbing for him, trying to drag him down. It's a good bit of stage business, and it's also an eerie picture of the starved world of Measure for Measure, sucking its inhabitants into the abyss...
Flood is charged with conspiring to collect $50,000 in bribes and with perjury in his testimony about the payoffs. Flood is liable for a maximum of 125 years in prison and a fine of $156,000 if convicted on all charges...
...practical point of view. But Carter's moral action is not good ... Our government wants political and internal results without war and with the help of Vietnamese and Cuban forces."Columbia Daily SpectatorMitch Rollnick"It is impossible for the Soviet government to put all people who speak out into prison. The quarantine aspect is not essential. as long as the struggle of ideas remains...