Word: thunderers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minh spoke in the chandeliered reception hall, deeply carpeted and hung with gold brocade, great rolls of thunder and flashes of lightning accompanied him. The Communists were not impressed. P.R.G. representatives promptly rejected Minn's proposal, charging that he had not met their conditions: 1) all U.S. military personnel must leave Viet Nam, and 2) the new Saigon government must have no holdovers from the old U.S.-supported regime. As Minh worked frantically to arrange a settlement, Saigon was gripped by the fear that the Communists would launch an all-out attack. "There is just...
Harry Truman called his Cabinet and staff together last week in Washington. Margaret stuck her head in too. There was some thunder, a great many jokes, roars of laughter and peppery irreverences about people and politics...
...elected for the first time to the National Command, directs the crack 30,000-man "Defense Phalanx" guarding Damascus. A nephew commands the army's "Struggle Brigade" within the Phalanx, a brother-in-law the 20,000-man special forces, and a cousin the paratroop "Thunder Brigade...
...politics were likely to find themselves traveling in strange, hostile, bewildering countries, like Kafka's explorer. As the orphans poured in, and word began to spread that even the Saigon government's own troops might turn against withdrawing American troops, 'populist' papers like The Chicago Tribune began to thunder about incomprehensible Vietnamese ingratitude...
Antonin Artaud's The Concl, was written by the man who coined the "theater of cruelty" movement. And the story of The Concl, a murderous, incestuous Roman family of the late sixteenth century, is certainly cruel enough (Shelley used it when he wanted to write a blood-and-thunder Jacobean verse drama). Director Phill Hass is usually good at bright more or less esoteric Continental playwrights to English audiences, and The Concl should be a worthwhile evening. At Lehman Hall, tonight, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and next weekend...