#emily webb

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emily webb in every act of our town

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i think im going to pass out

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Our Town

-- by Thornton Wilder

-- published in 1938

-- sentimental story

-- takes place in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire

-- set after turn of 20th century

-- play

-- three acts      -- “Daily Life”      -- “Love and Marriage”      -- “Death”

-- Daily Life      -- Professor Willard and Editor Webb gossip about the everday life of town residents

-- Love and Marriage      -- Emily Webb and George Gibbs fall in love      -- get married

-- Death      -- Emily dies giving birth      -- talks about meaning of life with other dead spirits in the cemetary

-- a Stage Manager talks to audience and narrates

-- performed on a bare stage

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BBC WS interviewer asks Entebbe rescuer about ‘reservations’, by Hadar Sela

One particularly noteworthy aspect of this interview is the attempt made to present the operation to rescue the hostages held at Entebbe (but not the actual hijacking) as “controversial”.

Webb [20:25] “The raid had been controversial and questions were asked in the UN about Israel’s response. […] In Israel the raid was still seen as a huge achievement…”

In fact the UN did not merely ‘ask questions’ –  as the JTA reported at the time, a UN Security Council session was convened.

“The four-day angry debate at the Council ended with a stalemate last night after the African states withdrew their resolution that called for the condemnation of Israel for violating Uganda’s sovereignty, and a rival British-American resolution condemning hijacking and international terrorism received only six votes, three short of the number necessary for adoption.

The Africans withdrew their proposed resolution – jointly sponsored by Libya, Tanzania and Benin –after it became clear that the one-sided resolution would not receive the minimum nine affirmative votes needed for adoption. In addition, had the resolution received the required votes. It would certainly have been vetoed by the U.S.”

Emily Webb however chose to echo the sponsors of that anti-Israel resolution when she asked the person who took part in a mission to rescue Jews held hostage by terrorists and threatened with death merely because of their ethnicity:

[09:59] Webb: “Did you have any reservations about the operations? I mean, knowing that you’d be violating Uganda’s territory by taking part in it, by going into the country without permission.”

Mr Sherman’s response to that peak BBC question was “not really”.

As we have seen in previous BBC attempts to report on that hijacking and rescue operation, not only does the corporation have considerable difficulty telling that story accurately and without politically motivated euphemisms but its 2007 conspiracy theory promoting article on that subject is still available online.

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Emily Webb | David Ward | Ballet San Antonio

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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

Thornton Wilder

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