Word: sean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan, the U.N.'s Hammarskjold sent cable after cable pleading for troop contributions from Mexico, Iraq, Iran and India, but got solid pledges from nobody. The new U.N. Congo Commander, Ireland's Lieut. General Sean McKeown, warned that the present 20,000-man force was the "bare minimum requirement" to prevent civil war. At week's end Hammarskjold gloomily informed the Security Council that unless replacement troops were forthcoming, he might have to propose "liquidation of the force, and in consequence, the entire United Nations Congo operation...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "Ireland: The Tear and the Smile," the second of a two-program report, with guests ranging from Actress Siobhan McKenna to Writer Sean O'Faolain and Designer Sybil Connolly...
...Abbey Theater to Hollywood; following a brain operation; in Dublin. From 1917 to 1929 Fitzgerald (real name: William Joseph Shields) led a double life as a bookkeeper for the Dublin Board of Trade by day, by evening an Abbey player in ever-fatter roles. Then famed Playwright Sean O'Casey wrote The Silver Tassie, and Fitzgerald opened it in London as a fulltime actor, quickly became the vogue in brogue. His Hollywood zenith came in 1945, when he won an Oscar for his supporting role as a cantankerous but lovable old priest in Going...
...Plough and the Stars (by Sean O'Casey) stands in the very first rank of modern plays. Among O'Casey's own, only Juno and the Paycock can challenge it; but though Juno has more memorable characters and richer comedy, its tragedy is dented with willful, stagy melodrama, where in The Plough and the Stars, tragedy and comedy are locked in an unshatterable embrace. In The Plough O'Casey found, if no better materials for tragedy, then an apter moment. Under the stress of turbulent historic events, amid the gunfire and bloodshed of the 1916 Easter...
...Sean O'Casey's Drums Under the Window is a lilting work that makes golden use of the English language. With this exception, however, the downtown offerings generally range from pretentious to overtly sheckel-minded. An example of a play with static ideas and superficial newness is Genet's The Balcony, one of off-Broadway's biggest hits. Despite its pretensions of originality, it bogs down in a miasma of unreality and philosophical despair. The play first states that men patronize brothels not for sexual satisfaction, but in order to fulfill self-illusions; to try to translate their dreamworlds into...