Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arresting all the material witnesses, the new Turkish government had guaranteed there would be a minimum of evidence. A former concierge at the Turkish consulate in Salonica, who had confessed the bombing to Greek authorities, and a Turkish student who admitted being in on the plot both retracted their confessions, claimed their earlier admissions were obtained by force or trickery...
...plot is simple and tight enough but several factors have distended the play in such a way as to make it reflect, very effectively, the vigor and the sullenness, the intensity and the aimlessness, to which the actors are accustomed--loose and pointless dialogues, interludes of street dancing (choreographed by two of the girls, Pauline Dempsey and Elaine "Muzzy" Moscatel, often disinterested actions, often passionless speech, and informal acting heightened by improvisation...
Discussing the relationship between life and drama, Bentley asserted that drama begins with an imitation of events, and "seldom forgets the animal part of human nature." Simple imitation of events, however, is a story, and will never yield a plot, for plot is the "arrangement of events...
...king died and the queen died; that's a story," Bentley remarked. "The king died and the queen died of grief; that's a plot...
Emphasizing the complexity of Shakespeare's plots, he said, "you can read thousands of pages of literary criticisms about Shakespeare and not find certain questions dealt with, if those questions are problems of plot. It is the child in us that reacts to narrative," Bentley concluded...