Word: containable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allegories, the characters go by general labels such as the Pilgrim, the Fool, the Saint. In Buchwald's comic allegory, the characters are similarly walking labels: the Hawk (a syndicated Washington columnist), the Ambassador, the Pentagon Man, the C.I.A. Man, the A.I.D. Man, the Local Prince. Stereotypes do contain truths, and they serve a playwright well, but only 50% of the way. The other 50% comes from a playwright's individuation of his characters so that they surprise, confound, delight and involve the audience. That is the 50% that Art Buchwald cannot yet supply in Sheep...
...indigestion," one Congressman japed as the mess boys carried trays of drinks and hors d'oeuvres through the White House State Dining Room. But none of the Republicans and Southern Democrats present could find fault with the host's mood. Richard Nixon could barely contain his exuberance. "It's great," the President said. "I'm glad there are so many members [of the House] who think the welfare of the country comes first...
Like most stereotypes, these caricatures possess a certain core of validity. They also help white America contain and numb the reality of past guilt and present injustice. Most important of all, they are less and less significant. After more than a century of patience and passivity, the nation's most neglected and isolated minority is astir, seeking the means and the muscle for protest and redress. Sometimes highly educated, sometimes speaking with an articulateness forged of desperation, always angry, the new American Indian is fed up with the destitution and publicly sanctioned abuse of his long-divided people...
...closely observed the security arrangements for the convention and tried to moderate the tactics of both radicals and police. Defense Attorney William Kunstler had hoped that Clark's recollections would shed light on whether the riots were incited by the seven or by the tactics used to contain them. Judge Hoffman has made little secret of his opinion that police behavior is outside the scope of the present trial...
...recently discovered Harvard plates contain the first publicly known Russian text of the letter. In addition, the plates have what purports to be minutes of a secret meeting of the Executive Committee of the Comintern where the ideas in the letter originated...