Word: recasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official newspaper, L'Humanité, described the Soviet repression of Hungary in 1956 under the incredible headline BUDAPEST SMILES AMONG THE RUINS. Under Georges Marchais, 50, who has taken over active direction of the party from ailing Party Secretary Waldeck Rochet, 65, the French Communists are seeking to recast their image. Other party stalwarts are helping out. In December, the Communists' 1969 presidential candidate, Jacques Duclos, joined other well-known Frenchmen on television to describe how he interpreted Christmas. Looking like Santa Claus in mufti, the beaming, rolypoly former pastry chef said it meant peace and good will...
Agathon was once a handsome and ambitious academic-political young man, an Archaic Period Kissinger to the John Mitchell of Lycurgus, the famous lawgiver who recast the constitution of Sparta in a fierce authoritarian mold. Now Agathon is a drunken old bum. In between, he has fought a battle disguised as a woman, seduced and married the daughter of an archon, helped the Ionian philosophers invent humanism, rationalism and Western civilization, betrayed his best friend to the Athenian FBI, and made love to the wives of all his friends. By teaching his greatest love, a Helot woman, to read...
Actually, this year's script was itself intended to be a new version. After the 1960 performance, which used a century-old text, the Oberammergauers decided to modernize and recast the whole conflict between Christians and Jews in the play. Stephan Schaller, a Benedictine headmaster in the neighboring village of Ettal, was commissioned to do a rewrite. Consulting with Jewish groups, he labored to bring the play into line with Catholic teaching since the Second Vatican Council, which decreed that the guilt of some Jews in Christ's crucifixion cannot be applied to all Jews, then...
Westerners speculate that the pragmatic Stoph is East Germany's "liberal," the man who could some day recast East German Communism's rigidly doctrinaire posture. Stoph, his second wife (he divorced his first in 1945) and four children live in Berlin's elite Wandlitz suburb, as do Ulbricht and other East German leaders. The Premier drinks and smokes little, and his chief relaxation is weekend walks in the woods. He is not considered an ideologue on the order of Ulbricht or Erich Honecker, the top man (after Ulbricht) in the Communist Party and Stoph's main...
...MUTINOUS Senate is trying to recast the conduct of U. S. foreign policy. Vietnam has been the catalyst for defining a new relationship between the executive and legislative branches. Growing bolder each year, the Senate has taken tentative steps to curtail effectively the disposal of American troops overseas-first by the passage of the "national commitments" resolution in June and now by Mathias' attempt to repeal the so-called Cold War Resolution...