Word: punic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...About those pundits on your staff and elsewhere: since antiquity, Pundora's Box has loosed upun us many a punatic with an overproductive puncreas who has wrought pundemonium (remember the Punic Wars). Have you no pungs of conscience? Your puny puntomimes are sure signs of mental puntrefaction! But the punneymoon is over-it now behooves the punblic to take pun in hand to try to puncture with punpoint accuracy their impunetrable hides...
...staged in the U.S. Trouble was, with all those ships and rocky passes, the technical demands of the fanciful libretto were more than most opera houses could handle, especially the matchbox confines of Manhattan's old Met. Now, with a new stage that could accommodate the Punic Wars, the Met has finally mounted its first production of Die Frau ohne Schatten...
...Coin of Carthage, by Bryher. The Punic Wars, seen not so much on the battlefronts as in the backwaters of living and in the private hopes and problems of small people...
...Maria or a drummer dragged along in the wake of Napoleon's march to Moscow. But the wispy, aging English heiress who calls herself Bryher and now lives permanently in Switzerland writes historical fiction in her own strange way. Her latest book covers some 40 years of the Punic wars. Characteristically, her two major characters never take part in, or talk about, any of the major battles. They are not attached to either army. For that matter, they are not even Roman or Carthaginian, but a pair of grubby Greek traders...
...Subtitles. Bryher's seemingly patchy method is likely to prove a relief to readers tired of overstuffed historical pageantry. But her assumption that anyone reading the book will know in large outline at least who won the Punic Wars and how is often disconcerting. As Trader Zonas leaves from his home in a seaport town and trudges into the hills with the hope of selling leather bridles to the Carthaginians, his small adventures at first seem fragmentary and meaningless-like a provocative foreign film seen without subtitles...