Word: revels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subsequent theatrical-mastery. Seemingly hailing the life force, Baal paradoxically suggests Brecht's fear of it, as if the worship of life could only lead to sensual derangement. If ever a playwright had a split personality, it was Bertolt Brecht. In later plays, he seemed to revel in decadence and cynicism while mourning purity. His intellect was at war with his heart. His tongue sneered while his lips prayed. Embracing the tyrannical collectivity god of Communism, he remained his own prickly, mocking, individual self. He was his own most ambiguous creation, elusive by nature and by craft...
Though the genial, toddy-swigging Ceylonese love political oratory and revel in elections, they are not very good at issuing a mandate. Last week's election was no exception. In the voting for 151 parliamentary seats, Madame's Freedom Party took a bad beating. Though carrying her own constituency, she and her Marxist allies could muster only 55 seats. Dudley Senanayake's U.N.P. captured 66 seats, an impressive advance but still not enough to form either a majority or a government...
...dangerous that last year nearly 50% of all U.S. seamen suffered injuries.* Since ships are, in effect, monarchies afloat, seamen are also close to being indentured workers. Seamen have successfully resisted being covered by workmen's compensation, which pays only modest amounts for disability arising from employment. They revel in gambling for considerably larger awards through wide-ranging lawsuits...
Last December 24, a large party of Portuguese soldiers were celebrating Christmas Eve in a bar in the village of Miteda, a tiny outpost in the jungles of Portugal's African colony of Mozambique. In the midst of the revel, a small band of heavily-armed Africans slipped unnoticed out of the forests and surrounded the village. Grenades went flying into the bar, and machine guns opened up on the Portuguese as they spilled out of the crumbling building; 113 soldiers were killed. The guerillas disappeared into the jungle with their first major victory. A new African revolution was underway...
...needed a victory more than Moise Tshombe, and last week he could revel in a big one. His army had retaken Albertville, the first major city captured by the rebels, who for more than two months had used its Lake Tanganyika port to ferry in arms and supplies from their headquarters in Burundi...