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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buffer State. Over the centuries, the mountain-locked nation of Tibet has often been overrun by invaders-Mongols, Manchus and Gurkhas, but most often Chinese. Whenever China was strong, it would send a garrison to occupy Lhasa. Whenever China was weak Tibetans would drive the garrison out. In 1904, uneasy about Russian encroachments in central Asia, the British launched an expedition from India and captured Lhasa with little difficulty. To keep each other at arm's length, Britain and Czarist Russia agreed to make a buffer state of Tibet and signed the Convention of 1907 recognizing China...
Signing himself simply Mr. Randolph, an outraged British subject wrote the King at the end of the 17th century to complain that the Bahamas were one of the "chief places where Pyrates Resort & are Harbourd." He requested "that his Majesty be pleased to send a first Rate ffrigot under the Command of a sober person" to end the menace. By 1718 Edward ("Blackbeard") Teach had been shot, and Woodes Rogers, the first Royal Governor, had arrived to establish the crown colony's motto-"Expulsis Piratis...
Despite SEC warnings of "manipulation," the stock market today is not manipulated as it was in the '20s. Then, a pool of speculators would buy enough stock to send it scooting up, stir up public interest so that they could unload at the top. Today, pools are not only illegal; stock ownership is so much broader that a pool could hardly operate. Now, stocks are often moved up by the tools of publicity...
...does not take much investigation to see that such a student is rare; and that irresponsibility is widespread. It takes the form of the play director who walks out on the play in the middle, the fund drive chairman who forgets to send out checks to charities. What does it matter what I do? he bitterly asks; no one cares, anyway...
There remains only Old Skipps, the rag and bones man who rises drunkly from the would-be dead to bring down the house with laughter and send the lovers home. And Barry Levin is a convincing drunk. And the play is convincingly optimistic...