Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Sputtering with rage, Colonel Mobutu sent 200 troops next morning to ring Lumumba's "official" residence. "Lumumba has thrown down a challenge to me and I have accepted it," said Mobutu. "Lumumba must be arrested." When the U.N. troops at Lumumba's door refused him entry, Mobutu raced off to have a bitter argument with U.N. Chief Rajeshwar Dayal, who feared the U.N.'s sternly neutral reputation would be jeopardized if he handed Lumumba over to his enemies...
...guild magazine, Opera News, which combines first-rate scholarship with the kind of prompter's box chitchat that opera fans feed on. With dues at $6 and up, the guild has raised $2,000,000 for the Met, has paid for 14 new productions (including a new Ring cycle, a fine new Magic Flute, last year's Simon Boccanegra) and helped pay for dozens more...
Actually a deeper dissatisfaction than trivial plays had inspired it: a dissatisfaction with the shabby world that Shelagh Delaney knew at first hand, and a sense of blockaded lives. It is a dissatisfaction that very often leaps to life through words that have edge and ring true, among people who are disturbed but vital, in scenes where lives come together, or clash, or come apart. An illegitimate young girl lives with her tramp of a mother, who soon enough runs off with a man. The girl herself has a brief affair with a Negro sailor on leave, becomes pregnant...
...self-sacrificing mother and her husband, said Mrs. Hahn. As for that episode in magistrate's court, she had taken her daughter there on a rabbi's advice because the girl had fallen in with a bad crowd and was the victim of a "fraudulent ring" of thugs...
...speed of things outside the law and people on the lam-or it kicks its heels with Parisian verve and pertness. Marguerite Monnot's score has a gay street-music tinniness that can have resonance too, as in the rousing wail of From a Prison Cell or the ring and bounce of There Is Only One Paris for That. But it is England's dark, dynamic Elizabeth Seal in the title role-indeed, as the only woman in the show-who stands foremost. Without her fresh, bright gifts for dancing and prancing and singing, and her gamine knack...