Word: tinder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...superb comedy of manners like The Importance of Being Earnest. In the arrogant exclusivity of his definition of drama, Grotowski elevates the director and the actor while excluding much of the world's dramatic literature. But when it comes to plays and themes that are stocked with spiritual tinder, Grotowski has proved that no one can set them more fiercely ablaze...
...Xuyen Province Pacification Chief William Barrett said, was the result of "a set of circumstances that could never be duplicated in a million years." One factor was the weather: the dry season had started two months early last fall, and dried U Minh's peat turf to tinder. Then, on March 8th, a group of fishermen, who had been forbidden by the Viet Cong to fish in the forest ponds, turned arsonists in pique and started a forest fire. At almost the same time fires accidentally started in other parts of the forest. Whipped by changing winds, the fires...
Through nearly 15 years of an uneasy armistice-peace has yet to return formally to the ravaged peninsula-the two forces have glared at one another across the 2½-mile-deep DMZ, constantly exchanging insults, often bullets. It would take a small spark to ignite such tinder, and the Pueblo incident came very close to providing such a spark...
...Nigeria, Curle points out, theree quarters of a million students left school last year to fill 140,000 new jobs. The rest are dry tinder, milling in the country's bloated cities. As Curle sees it, the summer sparks in U.S. ghettoes and what he refers to as the "incredible volume of violence in the underdeveloped world" are only hints of the cataclysm brewing in slums and vilages around the globe...
Heavy spring rains had made the area lush with foliage, then a hot, rainless summer had turned the greenery to tinder. Arsonists and accidents provided the torch...