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	Dan Todman, "Oh What a Lovely War" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Oh What a Lovely War is based around the songs which were sung by ordinary British soldiers during the war — often bowdlerised versions of popular classics, filled with parody and self-mocking humour.
		The war was used by those on the radical left to present ways of understanding the nuclear arms race, the war in Vietnam and the conflict between old and young, or between social conservatism and liberalisation (2).
		The familiar view of the 1914-18 war as a criminally wasteful adventure in which the stoic courage of the common soldiers was equalled only by the sanctimonious incompetence of their commanders and the blind jingoism of the civilians.
	warhistorian.org /todman.php (4188 words)

	London Theatre Guide Theatre Current Reviews / Oh What A Lovely War 2002
		On one level, Oh What a Lovely War is a ripping evening of song and dance, but more profoundly, it is a wonderful parody of the idiocy of war, holding up a mirror for those blinded by their own grandeur and ego, to study for themselves the reality of their actions.
		First performed in 1963, Oh What a Lovely War was inspired by a radio compilation of songs from the First World War and is perhaps the most well known of the “alternative” productions from the Theatre Workshop that based itself at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East.
		Oh What a Lovely War seemed to have almost been conceived with Regent’s Park in mind — the outdoor setting, the gathering dusk, holiday atmosphere and end-of-pier band all combined to provide a terrific evening’s entertainment that triumphs, and proves enduring, despite the passing of the years.
	www.londontheatre.co.uk /londontheatre/reviews/ohwhatalovelywar02.htm (631 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		The officers love their men, the girls love their men, the men love their girls, and the men love one another.
		Hollywood war films made in the 1960s and 70s were full of satire, irony and subversive wit.
		The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya was made by Yamamoto Kajiro in 1942, for the anniversary of the attack.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4193709,00.html (1931 words)

	Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		"Oh What A Lovely War" tells the story of World War One through the popular songs of the time, some of them sarcastically re-worded by the soldiers at the Front.
		Made in 1969, the film rides the wave of contemporary 'make love not war' sentiment, and uses humour and avant-garde zaniness to avoid seeming portentous.
		The War forces an aristocrat to converse with one of his retainers, but the conversation is hollow and awkward, as if the men speak different languages.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0064754 (1212 words)

	Aftermath: Newsclips - Review of new production of Oh What a Lovely War
		I saw the original production of Oh What a Lovely War in New York in the mid-Sixties, where it made a great impression on me — not only because of the show's novelty and quality, but because of its extraordinary relevance.
		While the pierrots of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop put on their end-of-the-pier show, juxtaposing the inanely cheerful songs of the First World War with its horrifying reality, Americans were noticing the "credibility gap" between what was happening in Vietnam and what we were expected to believe.
		The scenery is fine: a skeletal pier with red, white and blue fairy lights, topped by a screen on which nostalgic sepia photographs alternate with bulletins, flashed a word at a time, of the fatalities, still appalling and sobering.
	www.aftermathww1.com /regentspark.asp (459 words)

	Oh what a lovely `war'! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ignore for the moment the fact that you can't make war on an abstract noun (or an emotion); obviously the term is intended to be parsed as `war against terrorists'.
		But `war' is a funny term to use here, because a war has two sides.
		Oh, it's certainly propaganda; but it's surprising propaganda for the right to adopt since it seems to me to carry a meaning which is the exact opposite of what they intend: that there is a moral equivalence between acts by the terrorists, and acts by governments directed against the terrorists.
	www.ex-parrot.com /~chris/wwwitter/20040318-oh_what_a_lovely_war.html (622 words)

	Guardian \| Oh What a Lovely War
		Through its combination of popular song and horrifying battle statistics, it hit a sentimental nerve while calling into question the attritional conduct of the war that led to the slaughter of millions.
		But when a group of mill-workers shout down a peace campaigner, one is reminded how contemporary criticism of the war, not least by Bernard Shaw, was seen as treasonable.
		And a scene that always gets to me is the one in which the first batch of wounded arrive at Waterloo and find that the ambulances are reserved for officers only.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4469890-103686,00.html (379 words)

	Canadian Journal of History: Oh, What a Lovely War? War, Taxation, and Public Opinion in England, 1624-29
		When Charles I went to war with Spain in 1625 he believed the nation to be united behind him, a misunderstanding parliament corrected by predicating barely adequate votes of taxation upon alterations to unpopular domestic policies.
		This article analyses the yields of the various types of direct taxation raised during the period 1624-30 (providing a breakdown of receipts by county), and concludes that, while Charles's decision to collect prerogative taxation was a fiscal success, it cost him much of the political goodwill which had greeted his accession.
		Charles obviously rejected such allegations and sought to collect taxation without parliamentary sanction in the belief that his difficulties sprang from the machinations of a vociferous minority in Parliament and that his subjects were prepared to honour the obligations they had undertaken in 1624.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_200312/ai_n9342104 (642 words)

	Edinburgh Festivals - Oh, what a lovely war on terror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The ‘war’, incidentally, is the much-vaunted ‘War on Terror’, rather than simply the recent conflict in Iraq.
		"We are obviously in love with the concept of having an enemy, and we can’t exist or define ourselves without it," he says.
		Although, he says, "that, mainly, is true", he is concerned that "people are missing the point, because the strategies of control, and the strategies of distributing propaganda and justifying the war have changed a lot since Vietnam".
	www.edinburgh-festivals.com /reviews.cfm?id=869462003 (1332 words)

	Oh what a lovely war game: Don't be fooled - www.ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		For this to be another world war you would need two things: Allied countires battling other allied countries (And as of now, it looks as if neither side has any allies) and it needs to have a world power versus another world power.
		War games and movies such as 'Saving private Ryan', 'Black hawk down', and 'We were soldiers' are as close as they're going to get.
		War is not fun and it's not pretty, but in many cases it's the best or only option.
	p087.ezboard.com /fnextgenerationconsoles80644frm15.showMessage?index=8&topicID=6.topic (1025 words)

	Oh, what a lovely war - theage.com.au
		I wrote the story and continued to pare it down and down so 23 drafts later, the story came out to what it is in the book, curiously not much different from the second draft.
		In 1914, the first Christmas of the war, there was a truce when the dead were buried and the British and the Germans played soccer in no-man's-land.
		I wanted the book to be anti-war and show that these soldiers, in their quiet way, are caught up in war which they oppose.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/08/16/1060936089764.html?from=storyrhs (1473 words)

	GeorgeWBush.org Forum > Oh! It's a Lovely War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Dumbells were a bunch of young kids in the Canadian army during WWI, who made up songs about how shitty war was and became a troupe that entertained the soldiers of the Canadian army and allied armies, and then became a mainstream vaudeville act after the war.
		Their first song was "Oh! It's a Lovely War" which was satire about how much war sucked basically and they all hated being there.
		Mostly it was an attack on their leaders who stayed away from the trenches, or at home, talking talk while the soldiers who didn't get to make any decisions where in the down and dirty getting killed and injured.
	www.georgewbush.org /forum/lofiversion/index.php?t9553.html (377 words)

	To Iraq and Ruin: Oh, What a Lovely War (by Luciana Bohne) - Media Monitors Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		We should take the opportunity to inform our representatives in Congress that war on Iraq lacks a justifying motive (self-defense would be good), is unpopular with the whole globe (except for Sharon's Israel), has no plan for results, and would be terribly expensive.
		The New York Times (5 July) reports that the umpteenth secret government war plan for an Iraqi slaughter (they call it by its old-fashioned and grandiose term "war") has plopped down on its desk, leaked by the usual free-press angelic intervention.
		The 1991 Gulf "War," the largest military operation since WW2, went like this: the US gave signals to Hussein that his invasion of Kuwait would not phase it.
	www.mediamonitors.net /lucianabohne2.html (2447 words)

	icWales - Oh What a Lovely War tours in new production (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		OH What A Lovely War is a landmark in post war British theatre.
		Following its premiere in 1963 Oh What a Lovely War, a big hit with both audiences and critics, went on to become one of the most celebrated shows of the decade.
		"Oh What A Lovely War" is designed by Mark Bailey, who worked with Baker most recently on the acclaimed National Theatre touring production of Brecht/Weill's "The Threepenny Opera".
	icwales.icnetwork.co.uk /0900entertainment/0050artsnews/page.cfm?objectid=12554203&method=full&siteid=50082 (331 words)

	Sisyphus Shrugged - Oh, what a lovely war - Wolf Blitzer, John Peter Zenger and George Orwell spinning in his grave
		So (as Dr. Kissinger would say) A, it is not excusable, and second, the atrocities occurred in a context where it was all the fault of the arab press for broadcasting film of atrocities six months later.
		You want to know about war crimes, there are few better-informed sources in US politics than Henry Kissinger.
		Too lovely, in fact, to belong to the upwardly-mobile Alexander Hamilton.
	www.livejournal.com /users/jmhm/846630.html (432 words)

	EUFS: Oh What A Lovely War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is about the First World War and combines stage-bound scenes with surrealistic sequences and straight filming.
		This is particularly evident in his latest film Shadowlands, The film is at times very savage, calling to mind the bitterest of Wilfred Owen's and Sassoon's poetry, particularly in its portrayal of the rich and the leaders of the army.
		This isn't about the glories of war; at the end, in one of the best uses of anticlimax, the Treaty of Versailles is signed and a soldier from the trenches walks unnoticed around the conference table, while a little girl plays in a military cemetery.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/oh_what_a_lovely_war.html (272 words)

	Oh, What a Lovely War
		Audiences associated the no-holds-barred assault on all the old clichés about valor, and king and country, with all the dramatic social changes accompanying the youth rebellion of the sixties, as a whole generation of young people scandalized their parents and rejected their values.
		The discussion among the women working in the munitions industry and making shrouds was much more powerful, so we felt the contrast between the relative indifference of the women and the lives actually being lived (and not lived) by the boys in the trenches was palpable.
		The final reprise of "Oh, What a Lovely War," during which we applauded, ended, the cast went off, and even though I think all of us wanted to show our gratitude even more, didn't come back.
	www.stthomasu.ca /~hunt/reviews/whatawar.htm (795 words)

	Compare the ways in which figures of authority are portrayed in Joseph Heller's Catch 22 and Joan Littlewood's Oh! What ...
		Another key theme of both texts is the portrayal of war as a game, or as something frivolous and light-hearted by those in authority.
		What a Lovely War is as a musical show, with song and dance.
		'The War Game' is a classic example of this, as is the 'grouse-shooting party' which consists of munitions manufacturers from the key nations involved in war.
	www.coursework.info /i/27726.html (765 words)

	Oh what a lovely war on terror it's been for Halliburton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Oh what a lovely war on terror it's been for Halliburton
		But it was the war on terror which really expanded its fortunes from government projects.
		It also focused critics' minds on how close Halliburton continued to be to Mr Cheney and his coterie of hawkish colleagues in Washington.
	www.democrats.com /node/4028/print (259 words)

	Oh What A Lovely War! - Richard Attenborough 1969 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war.
		The Great War -- the War to End All Wars -- has faded deep into the past for most people, and we forget that the death-toll from that conflict blighted an entire generation.
		A unique satire which expresses the fact that war is bad and does not solve anything.
	www.learmedia.ca /product_info.php/products_id/120 (1942 words)

	Edinburgh Guide Theatre review - Oh, What a Lovely War
		Joan Littlewood's Oh, What a Lovely War is one of the landmarks of modern British theatre.
		Its satirical sting and sharp insight into the political intrigues are still as fresh as they were all those years ago when it was first written and performed.
		Though occasionally entertaining and even endearing, Edinburgh's Theatre Workshop's Oh, What a Lovely War fails to do so, and instead, is satisfied to merely play on the audiences cheapest sentiments.
	www.edinburghguide.com /aande/theatre/reviews/o/oh_what_a_lovely_war_twcc.shtml (447 words)

	Oh, What a Lovely "War!"
		Of course, if the War on Terrorism is not a war in the “legal” sense, then the soldiers aren’t soldiers and the captives are most certainly not prisoners of war as defined by international law.
		Neither the War on Drugs or the War on Cancer constitute legal wars, either; rather, the terms suggest total societal mobilization against an agreed-upon social evil.
		And, under a democratic constitutional order such as we might wish to see spread around the world, the rights of criminals—even the most dangerous and violent “bad guys”—will be important to the legitimacy of that order and to the safety of everyday life.
	people.ucsc.edu /~rlipsch/Lovely.html (918 words)

	westword.com \| \| Movies \| OH, WHAT A LOVELY WAR \| 1995-05-10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The irony of the piece, subtly explored by Nair and scriptwriter Robin Swicord, is, of course, that Juan and Dottie's newfangled family of convenience grows more authentic and vital than the one Juan left in Havana two decades ago.
		She may have been raised in Orissa, India, but Nair seems instantly at home on the teeming salsa streets of Little Havana, circa 1980, in its fragrant coffee bars and over-decorated nightclubs.
		Instead, their survival is a spectacle both lovely and satisfying.
	www.westword.com /issues/1995-05-10/movies.html (785 words)

	Oh! What a Lovely War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This was a searing indictment of the modern world’s obsession with and attitude towards war, with dark comedy forming a startling contrast to the grim pictures and statistics projected on a giant screen at the back of the stage.
		The cast’s movements around the complex multi-level set and the seamless transition from one sequence to another was a tribute to Mr Morley’s innovative and tireless direction and to the actors’ energy, commitment and talent.
		We were taken from one emotional extreme to another, the actors handling the grim details of war with a lightness of touch that was irresistible.
	www.clsg.org.uk /owalw.htm (407 words)

	Oh What a Lovely War
		This involved ignoring the advice of many wise, rich people, who recommended surrendering completely so the well-heeled and inbred could continue to make money while hopefully being insulated from the more nasty effects of invasion by sheer force of wealth.
		But then, rather than privatising all war production and making sure that businessmen and shareholders were the first to profit, it all went horribly wrong.
		Famed Actor and War Hero Eddie Albert Dies at Age 99
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/8-14-2002-24436.asp (598 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Oh What A Lovely War (Methuen Modern Play) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Some people felt that the play voiced their own thoughts and feelings about war and conflict, whilst many of the older generation were shocked by the show's attitude toward the generals and civilians who sent a generation of young men off to the slaughterhouse of Ypres and the Somme.
		War songs are sung to express patriotic ideas about fighting, against a backdrop of imagery that reflects the play's real attitude to war.
		Large images such as soldiers dying after being wounded in gunfire, or decaying corpses left rotting in the mud are accompanied by captions, such as death tolls and `updates' on the current war situation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0413302105?v=glance (1270 words)

	Mill Hill School - Top Terrace - Oh What a Lovely War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Their very youth and vulnerability conveyed sharply how, as these pierrots played out the war game, they were seduced into the role of unwitting puppets.
		The MC/Sergeant, ably played by Scott Sturgess, maintained a face of unquestioning jauntiness; only once did he show, subtly, a slight uncertainty as his assignment of wounded and blind arrived at Waterloo Station, where they were left abandoned while ambulances were provided for 'Officers only'.
		The technical skill of backstage effects, the authentic period war posters lining the theatre walls, the professional costumes and the informative programme, indicated the director's consistent attention to detail.
	web802.pavilion.net /topterrace/2001win-ohwhat.html (358 words)

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