Word: returning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...crazy house of supine elegance and overheated, strangling dreams, and showed that Heartbreak House, or cultured, leisured Europe before the War, would split up on the rocks of apocalyptic change. That bitter play, Shaw's greatest, ends with the romantics and neurotic socialites and realists wishing for the return of raiding bombers-the romantics for the fun of it, the realists for the irrevocable annihilation of it Chekhov does not take refuge in the modern romanticisms of self-despising, indifferent contempt of social evils, or renovatory violence. Even as the axes fall on the cherry trees in his last play...
Despite his bizarre emigre life, Lionel sounds nostalgic about the U.S. "It's nervous, violent, tough and exacting. The young artists there are managing to survive and make their statements." Would he return? "No, thanks," he says. "You can't work and make out in New York or Hollywood. This is the place for me-Viva Roma...
...Cambodian government and foreign embassies of the East and West. One Western official refers to the press corps as "our political section." He is only half kidding. Like reconnaissance patrols, newsmen head out each day to where they guess the Communists and the action are. On their return,* they file their stories and then sit down by the pool at the Hotel Royal to swap information over citron presses. Officials of the U.S. and Soviet embassies drop in regularly...
...demonstrators threw rocks and bottles at police, who repeatedly charged and gassed the demonstrators in return. Rally marshals circulated through the crowd-often acting as a buffer between rioters and police-urging everyone to "go back to the campus." The large crowd dispersed by 11:30 p. m. National Guardsmen remained on duty along New Haven streets and scattered groups roamed the area, but no more outbreaks occurred...
...from several people that many Egyptian prisoners didn't want to leave the Israeli camps, where they were getting enough to cat. It is also rumored that, when these Egyptians were released by the Israelis, they were shot by their own men as they swam across the canal to return home, for the Egyptian army did not want the country to know what really happened...