For those of us spared the terrors of war, to be worthy of our dead, is to remember them.
Well before the captured Germans arrive to pick cotton for local farmers, the inhabitants of Loring, Miss., past and present, have struggled against the complex terrors of war.
Anam deftly weaves the personal and the political, giving the terrors of war spare, powerful treatment while lyrically depicting the way in which the struggle for freedom allows Rehana to discover both her strength and her heart.
Imaginative use is made of the chorus throughout this work, even to the extent of the composer's choice of tessitura (high or low part of the voice range): when the chorus sings of the lamentations of the people over the terrors of war, the words are sung by the dark-hued combination of tenors, baritones, and basses in their middle or lower register.
From the moment the performers step out, catching and holding the gaze of the audience members, it's as if they're making a pact: "We're all in this together, right?" This sense of unity is furthered but complicated by a chanted text following a narrator's meandering thoughts: whether to buy peaches, the tyranny of real estate, the often theoretical terrors of war and loneliness.
But whereas Mama, a latter-day variation on Brecht's Mother Courage (the Brecht play partly inspired "Ruined"), uses hominess and familiarity to shut out the terrors of war in Congo, "Ruined" craftily creates the same atmosphere to bring those same terrors to our attention.
Teffi inimitably captures the chaos and terror of war.
In parallel with the pain and terror of war, there is daily life.
This gives a new twist to the terror of war: not all tyrants crumble.
First and foremost, Aftenposten wanted to stop Facebook's censorship of the documentary photo The Terror of War.
Sandberg wrote that "sometimes … the global and historical importance of a photo like 'Terror of War' outweighs the importance of keeping nudity off Facebook".
