Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...conceded privately that it was only a matter of time and began looking for a face-saving way to get Katanga back into the Congo. The government pulled back a token 1,500 of the 10,000 troops in Katanga, and the Belgian National Bank quietly advanced the Congo Central Bank an undisclosed sum (reportedly $8,000,000) to meet the government's August payroll. Congo President Joseph Kasavubu declared: "I now see our affairs in the colors of the rose-though of course roses have thorns...
...N.D.P. are blatantly militant and anti-European." Whitehead's action needed no explanation. His United Federal Party holds only a shaky two-vote majority in the Southern Rhodesian Parliament over the extreme rightist Dominion Party,' which has been urging that Southern Rhodesia break up the Central African Federation by abandoning its ties to Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. With the chaos in the Congo seemingly confirming the worst fears of white settlers in both major parties, Whitehead knew that any softness toward the Africans could topple his government. He apparently decided to get tough...
...badly miscalculated the mood and temper of Southern Rhodesia's Africans. From London, ex-Prime Minister Garfield Todd demanded that Britain suspend Southern Rhodesia's constitution, send in troops to enforce a change toward more liberal government. But this appeal outraged even Todd's own Central African Party, which promptly ousted him from leadership, probably ending the political effectiveness of the one major Southern Rhodesian leader who advocates real racial partnership...
Both roles are difficult in the extreme, and for quite different reasons: though central to both is the curious fact--which I have not seen propounded elsewhere--that the play is not high tragedy at all, indeed, it would be possible--though I am not proffering this as the best solution, to play the work as essentially a near-Shavian high comedy; and of course Shaw did at least treat the Egyptian queen in similar fashion, though taking her at a much tenderer age, in Caesar and Cleopatra. Shakespeare did not present us here with an exalted love: Cleopatra...
Measure for Measure. Open-air Shakespeare in Manhattan's Central Park...