Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brecht's Galileo, the modern concerns are there. References to the starving Italian peasantry make clear Brecht's political leanings, and in emphasizing the possible dangers of scientific inquiry, he invokes the Einstein/Oppenheimer dilemma. But these issues have too little to do with the progress of the play to hold it together. The political speeches seem like incidental inserts, and by the end of the play Brecht seems to have dropped the issue of science's dangers in his concern with Galileo's integrity...
...Sufism, Islam has preserved the way of knowing God in life. Attracted by the Persian example of linking spiritual and material progress, many Americans like myself have become dervishes and have discovered the miracle described by the 11th century Persian Sufi, Abu Sa'id, who said: "It is no miracle to walk on water or the air, for frogs and birds do that; the miracle is to go about your business and never for a moment forget...
Stratford's progress is reflected in its figures: last year profits were $3,400,000. The company's revenues rose from $27.8 million in 1969 to $78.8 million in 1972. The year 1971, however, was bad: though sales rose to $60.3 million, from $37.5 million in 1970, the company showed a loss of $4,000,000. Gow explains that although only a small fraction of Stratford's income stems from oil, a blowout in one of its natural gas wells cost the company $6,000,000. The company's stock sells these days at about...
...scenes of Claire on a train and Sebastien in his flat -- both pondering what has led to their final separation. Within this frame, flashbacks and carefully repeated motifs establish a structure of great delicacy. Sebastien's whole problem of fusing the emotion of his private life with the progress of the play is summed up by a scene he shares with the two Andromaques of the production, his past and present lovers. Claire's search for a dog like one Sebastien had compared her to becomes an index of her impinging madness...
SOUTH AFRICA acquired control of Namibia in 1919, under a mandate of the League of Nations, with the condition that the government promote the well-being and social progress of the inhabitants. But in 1964, the United Nations, successor to the League of Nations, charged that South Africa failed to carry out this condition and deprived inhabitants of basic human rights and freedoms...