Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play, conceived of and written largely by Auden, is a series of seemingly peripheral scenes and songs in the modern disjunctive genre, tenuously held together by the quest of Alan Norman (played by Mark Driscoll) and his dog for the missing Sir Francis Crewe (Paul Warner). The general of Pressan Ambo, the rural English town where the quest begins, explains the dog's disloyalty to all as if he were speaking of the play itself: "It's his mongrel blood, of course No loyalty, no proper feeling...
...scene in the Nineveh Hotel (remember Jonah's destination), where the dancing girls offer. "We lift our legs for your masculine inspection. You can admire us without correction..." The best scene does not take place until Alan Norman loses the innocent manner with which he has made his quest and makes love to the beautiful Miss Vipond, played by a shopwindow dummy. Driscoll's fall from purity--which he has carried through very well throughout the play--resembles the social and personal malaise seen earlier in Paradise Park and the Red Light District...
Gracious toasts and easy charm mark a quest for Western unity
Nacht: There are several issues on the table here that I would like to respond to. The first on the question of nuclear superiority. It may be the case that the quest for nuclear superiority by either the Soviet Union or the United States is futile. But I think it will be pursued with all due vigor by both sides...
Moreover, the Administration's ongoing quest for a global alliance against the Soviet threat adds significantly to the instability of a fractured world. Straited by a narrow, dualistic vision of world events, the government ignores pressing and unique problems indigenous to different regions. The U.S. sells AWACs to a nation that has declared undying hatred of a close American ally, a conviction that America is only a purveyor of arms, and a desire for friendship with the Soviet Union. It sends a stream of arms into a region traumatized by civil war, in the hope of propping up repressive...