No, the regiment was not immediately disbanded, it was not disbanded until 1995.
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It is amazing how skewed a discussion can become.
Harold Pinter recieves a Nobel Prize in Literature. The Prize Committee gives him accolades of praise:
"Pinter's work "uncovers the precipice under every day
prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed doors."
"Pinter restored theatre to its basic elements -- an
enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where
people are at the mercy of each other and pretense
crumbles."
How revered is Pinter as a playwright? "His spare style full of threatening silences, has given rise to the adjective
"Pinteresque."
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The outrage at his speech has eclipsed the solid, studied case for Pinter as the most significant and imporftant playwright in the English language. He has had a profound affect on the modern theatre. The man desrves his due.
Not too many years ago there was another artiist who created quite a stir. Her name was Lenie Riefenstahl. She was Hitler's official photographer. She directed a propogana film called "Triumph of the Will." It made a god-like figure out of Hitler.
She loved Hitler and the Nazis. But when she died a few years ago (aged,but still believing in the Reich),, she triggered a controversy over the quistion
Can an artist be judged for his work independent of his poiitics?
I would add that, in Lenie's case, most critics and academics
gave her a break. Is Pinter more reprehensible than
Lennie was?
I don't think, Mr. Falcon, that you can expect those most likely to comment here on Mr. Pinter, to do so with such a perspective. Sadly, for too many Americans, the measure of someone's worth is their willingness to "get on board," their willingness to stifle criticism . . .
Okay I'm back from holiday, have read up to here, and this morning only offer you my signature line.
"Patriotism is the love of one's own country, nationalism is the hatred of others"
Dimitri Sergeyevich Likhachev - Russian literary historian who died in 1999.
