Word: welters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Murder in the Cathedral is what to do with the actors while they go about the business of hitting the audience with line after line of great poetry. Very little action is called for in the play itself, and its potential impact could very easily be lost in a welter of words. What Mr. Wheeler has done is use the movements of the actors throughout the course of the play as another means of expressing the many subconscious elements implicit in the characters' speeches. The actors make full use of the beautiful chapel in which the play is performed, often...
Even for countries without border problems, the very welter of tribes in most of Africa's new nations presents a formidable problem. In Tanzania, for example, there are 120 tribal groups speaking at least as many distinct languages. Yet many African countries may be better off with many small, weak tribes than with a few strong rival groups. In the early '60s in Rwanda, the squat Bahutu literally cut the tall, stately Watutsi down to size by whacking their legs off. Thus ended the age-old Watutsi hegemony over the Bahutu. Two smoldering guerrilla wars are ethnic...