Word: spitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern woman's instinct for the male jugular, Beclch ends as a form of social parable on black Africa's expulsion of cruel, exploiting whites. Liberally scatological in its language, the play uses four-letter words as fashionable credentials. They seem to show that the author can spit the raw verbal gristle of experience at the audience coolly, and strictly for laughs...
...will be entirely surrounded by South African territory and is heavily dependent on Verwoerd's economy since thousands of Basuto regularly flock to South African gold mines for jobs. But Chief Jonathan has something to offer in return: water for South Africa's parched farmlands, and some spit and polish for the image Verwoerd would like to project to the world as a man reasonable to his black neighbors if not his black countrymen. The talk was friendly enough, but except to be photographed, Verwoerd refused to appear in public with Chief Jonathan. So the visitor...
...often painfully crude. Kangaroo courts convened in the streets and meted out embarrassing punishment to anyone guilty of associating with foreigners. Doctors, for example, were forced to walk on their knees in the gutters because they had treated foreign patients. At Peking University, Red Guards encouraged students to spit on their professors. In Shanghai, two professors were forced to parade naked in front of the students...
...than irritable--he is mad. So it means very little for him to fall under the spell of Dionysus as he has no rationality to be deprived of. At the start Pentheus should provide a sane, if angered, resistance to the god. In the Agassiz production he can only spit inanities...
...playwrights begin with one major premise-the absence of God. Their despair and their task are to fashion a post-Christian ethos, to find a meaning for life without supernatural sanctions. Man, as they see him, is a creature trapped between two voids, prenatal and posthumous, on a shrinking spit of sand he calls time...