Word: teared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been using herbicides and CS, a tear-gas riot-control agent, in Viet Nam, and there is genuine legal confusion over whether Rogers' interpretation is correct. But why should the Geneva Protocol not be considered to forbid all forms of chemical and biological warfare? Harvard Biologist Matthew Meselson, who spent six weeks in Viet Nam last summer, argues that CS has been decreasingly useful because of enemy countermeasures that range from Soviet-made gas masks to face cloths soaked in urine; even Robert Komer, who ran the pacification program under Lyndon Johnson, concedes that defoliants and crop-destroying agents...
...Glass Tear. The show begins amid the banal frivolity of a beer party. A group of the Grey Lady's giddy friends have come in to guzzle Budweiser and Ballantine's ale. These are not puppets, but men and women wearing decadent, citified masks. At the sound of a funeral chime, which is actually two lead pipes clanged together by the agent of fate at the side of the stage, the beer cans are whisked away. The guests leave and the stage is occupied by a puppet father and mother and a masked...
...mother, or Grey Lady, is the mater dolorosa, a woman of sorrowing countenance, possibly the mother of Christ; her huge supplicating hands resemble those of a pietà. She sends her son off to war and we feel that she knows he will be killed. A single glass tear slowly descends her right cheek...
...real star of the evening was Mrs. McCleavey's shrouded corpse, and its accoutrements-her grayish marble eyes, her false teeth, her Bingo Society "floral tribute." Maybe if we all had the chance to tear the dead apart and turn them upside down in locked cabinets and carry their stiff corpses around in our arms as the characters in Loot do, we might all find release from the hold of death in our minds. For as objects, in silk-lined strong-boxes, our bodies, as Orton sees them, are interchangeable and not so much contemptible as laughable. Joe Orton...
Additionally, mass demonstration as a tactic to bring about political change has worn thin. Students are not only weary of tear gas and nightsticks, but have recognized that mobs, however idealistic, can easily be manipulated by small minorities on both sides of the issues. They are now asserting their independence and privately searching for new tactics...