Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wept at the Wailing Wall-tears of grief for the children who lived in those Arab huts cleared away by Israeli bulldozers, for their parents and grandparents who are homeless, or dead; tears of anger at the Israelis who prayed with self-righteous piety before their "holy" wall, oblivious to the suffering of the families driven out to accommodate Jewish religious fanaticism. The picturesque houses and narrow, winding streets have been replaced by a broad courtyard to accommodate 200,000 devout Jews...
...Committee to try to vote Mao out of power. But Mao got wind of the meeting and managed to have it postponed until his return. Then he declared all-out war on Liu. Red Guard cartoons began depicting the gaunt, grey President as licking the boots of American imperialists; wall posters denounced him as a capitalist-lover and a traitor. Liu's wife was forced to attend Red Guard meetings, where she was expected to offer public criticism of herself and her husband...
...Djakarta embassy. Ten Chinese aides ousted from India two weeks ago filed into their plane wearing conspicuous bandages on their heads. Expelled in reprisal for Chinese violence against two Indian diplomats, the Chinese said they had been beaten in New Delhi. Last week two Burmese climbed over a back wall at China's embassy in Rangoon and knifed an economic-aid specialist to death...
...Paris apartment, supposedly out of the reach of Stalin. Nevertheless, agents of the G.P.U. (Russia's secret police at that time) located the apartment, perhaps with the aid of an agent provacateur, and they occupied the adjacent room. Then, with a torch, they cut through the intervening wall and made off with the papers...
...current crop, though, does manage to bring to the Pyramus interlude a good deal of humor, albeit of a highly slapstick sort. Pyramus' whacking of Wall (Robert Frink) on the chest elicits a cloud of plaster dust. And when Thisby (Mylo Quam) says, "Come, trusty sword," she repeats the line, whereupon the "dead" Pyramus hands her his own sword, with which she then proceeds to stab herself with studied phoniness under the armpit. (Ritchard has, in fact, introduced throughout the whole show a lot of business straight out of vaudeville and the music-hall...