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...British and Commonwealth troops were stationed in Armentières, she was more virtuous than many of her unsung sisters. The ditty got its start, in fact, when she roundly slapped a British officer who tried to kiss her in the café. Its first verse, written by a sergeant who watched the action...
Farquahr's plot was concerned with a captain and a sergeant who try to recruit a company of 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...
Bruce Kornbluth's Sergeant Kite is a masterpiece of Villainy; his masquerades as a lady fortune-teller and as a preacher are splendidly done. K. Lype O'Dell's Balance and David Meneghal's Brazen are fine comic parts. In a moment of inspiration, Chapman Laurence Senetlick in the relatively minor role of Simpkins, and Senelick's sniggering, swaggering portrayal of the only poor man who lines up with the bourgeoisie (he's Justice Balance butler) justifies him. Simpkins' description of Bunker Hill is one of the highlights of the evening...
...should abandon Viet Nam entirely, that Johnson was a warmonger. New York Herald Tribune Columnist Joseph Alsop complained about Lyndon's close personal scrutiny of the details of war: "The President is asking for very bad trouble by trying to act as both field marshal and top sergeant in a war halfway 'round the world, in a country he does not know, with combatants, tactics, terrain and an infinity of other local features which are wholly unfamiliar...
...this may sound like Big Brother, but even civil libertarians are convinced that Gallati's ideas will, in fact, safeguard rights by enabling police to distinguish between veteran crooks and first offenders. "If a quick check shows you have no record," says Gallati, "the desk sergeant will simply give you a summons to appear in ten days." For suspects with criminal records, on the other hand, the system will work like a one-way magic carpet-to the clink...