Word: puppetized
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...make our code realistic? Proclaim to the world that a captured soldier is regarded as a puppet while in enemy hands. As such, he will mouth words or write documents as his captor dictates. Thus, the propaganda value of a "confession" will become insignificant, and the helpless prisoner will be spared opprobrium for being human...
...Guthrie production, the cast wears somber masks as they did in the original Greek production, and for a while this adds a dimension of hieratic awe to the play, but soon the lack of human expressions reduces the effect to a kind of puppet show. The women's roles are played by men, also a custom with the ancients. At the outset, this is forceful and a trifle unsettling. Yet eventually the lack of sexual differentiation erases the central fact that this is a bitter domestic tragedy...
...bore at 15 and is now herself a slow 32 years old. As for Mercy, she has no character at all; her external priggishness cloaks a savage Sapphic hunger. George is promptly cast out of the triangle and crawls, wounded, to obscurity. Her new job: the voice of a puppet called Clarabelle...
...wife, "one or two notches" in his belt. But he won a personal victory of sorts. In part, Thieu's delay was a face-saving gesture. But in forcing some concessions from the U.S., he enhanced the credibility of his government as an independent entity rather than the "puppet" regime that the Communists are so fond of belaboring. Finally, Thieu strengthened his domestic position, and averted a rebellion among the hardliners, who are fearful of a sellout in Paris...
...most ironic element in it was the way in which it demonstrated Saigon's new-found independence. The U.S. has all along labored to help create a stable constitutional government that could eventually stand on its own, a government immune to Communist charges that it is a mere puppet of the Americans. President Thieu's defiant holdout provided an unexpected confirmation that the U.S. has indeed been at least partially successful in those objectives in Viet Nam. The impasse, as Washington saw it, constituted an untimely assertion of nationalism by Saigon, making the U.S. quest for peace...