Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their intent) were borrowed: the rapacious soldiers and leering camp followers of A Man's a Man could not have been conceived by anyone else; yet they do most obviously have a model, the Kipling of "O, it's Tommy this an' Tommy that . . ." So too their spineless victim-- only he is patterned after, not Kipling, but Jaroslav Hasek's Adventures of the Good Soldier Schweik--a book Brecht thought one of the "three literary works of this century which . . . will become part of world literature...
...list of influences: this act, as A Man's a Man shows, finally gave him the skills to shatter completely the culinary arts. The audience is now at arm's length, and the actors can themselves glide from impersonations, now assuming a new role (as Galy Gay, the soldiers' victim, is made to). then to be suddenly exposed (as is the soldiers' ruse, a fake elephant named Billy Hamph...
...intent of the plot, too, seems close to Pirandello. Galy Gay, the hero and victim, is an Irish dockworker in India (Itself another Kiplingesque amalgam: the time of the play is 1925, but Victoria has not yet relinquished the throne of England). So passive a character is Gay that the three soldiers can erase his individuality altogether--originally weak and insignificant, and a pacifist, he is made to join their machine gun unit to replace a man whose absence would expose the soldiers as temple robbers. Given the missing man's identification card, he becomes a ferocious super-hero...
...French cuisine of the New Frontier may have claimed a Republican victim. Shortly after Jacqueline Kennedy's Mount Vernon fête champêtre (TIME, July 21), Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen, 65, a cornbred Illinoisan, checked into Bethesda Naval Hospital for treatment of a reactivated peptic ulcer that had been quiescent for many years...
...Says No. Congressional Leaders in Washington are understandably worried by this ten-year reapportionment itch. For one thing, some old stalwarts always disappear. One victim of the "Rockymandering" that New York Democrats charge Governor Nelson Rockefeller is planning to cover a two-seat loss will be Manhattan Democrat Alfred Santangelo, a hard-working and valuable agriculture expert, though he comes from East Harlem. And a handful of such changes can shade an entire Congress. Republicans, who will probably benefit as the outs in an off-year election, might well gain control of the House if the returns really run wild...