Word: savely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soldiers in the country town of Shrewsbury during the War of the Spanish Succession. Brecht changed the time to 1776; his Captain Plume is the hero of Bunker Hill (he won the battle by cutting open a dike so that the American "dirt farmers" fled to try to save their fields). He and Sergeant Kite are unable to recruit men successfully by legal means; they try various tricks and finally resort to a morality campaign which "cleans up" Shrewsbury by having a justice of the peace find the community's able-bodied poor guilty of assorted petty crimes. For punishment...
...will be relevant only to the degree that it becomes identified with the contemporary social revolution. The Catholic Church has begun to realize this. By lending technical and professional assistance to church-sponsored programs of social reform, Papal Volunteers are witnessing to the fact that Christ came not to save souls, but to love...
...Benin was wrought to please the despotic king, or Oba, and nearly all the paper-thin plaques bear holes where nails attached them to the columns of his royal palace. Since wood rots, almost no pre-19th century African art remains save Benin's miraculous bronzes...
...Brecht uses a prologue and epilogue, both Fraught with Meaning, to drived his point home. And the point is so hackneyed that I found myself trying to read between the lines, sure that there was some subtle message I was missing. Unfortunately, there wasn't. Sometimes good acting can save a poor piece of work, but in this case overacting just lent to the production's problems...
...satisfy growing French consumption (which doubled to 309 million barrels between 1959 and 1964) and thereby will attain Charles de Gaulle's goal of independence from the Anglo-American oil companies. By paying francs for oil from the only major source within the franc zone, France will also save $280 million a year in foreign exchange. Perhaps most important, the agreement is a long step toward returning Algeria politically-as well as financially-to France's sphere of influence. It also serves to strengthen French prestige throughout Africa and to frustrate the economic ambitions of Russia...