Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...films of Hamlet, Wuthering Heights or David Copperfield are obvious examples of one kind of demolition...To see the works of the Impressionists twisted into backgrounds for advertising perfume; to hear the melodies of Bach, Mozart, Berlioz and Chopin re-handled by Tin Pan Alley; to listen to absent-minded hacks giving the lowdown on high art...all this is destructive in the same measure that it is communicative...
Like all the Greek tragedies, Electra is divided into heroes, gods and women. Here, the gods are remote, the hero Orestes largely absent, and it is the women who seem demoniacally possessed. Before the play begins, Clytemnestra and her ambitious paramour Aegisthus murder King Agamemnon, Electra's father, upon his return from the Trojan War. After that, treated like an outcast in the palace, Electra counts on her brother Orestes to return and avenge their father. At Orestes' seeming death, a clever display of Sophoclean theatricality, her hopes are dashed only to spiral into joy when her brother...
Politically, Aragon is as devoted a party man as ever, but as a novelist, at least, he seems to have taken temporary leave from Communism's orientation classes; in Holy Week, the familiar Marxist missionizing is mercifully absent...
...SATCHEL (by Sunny B. Warner; Knopf; $3) reflects every moppet's image of himself as a grown-up Mr. Fixit. Toting around a battered old doctor's bag almost as big as he is, Tobias finds novel uses for its contents. With his saw he rescues an absent-minded carpenter who had built a house without a door. With his shovel he refloats a stranded whale. Author-Illustrator Warner's pictures are as winningly harum-scarum as her resourceful little hero...
...Populusque Romanus). Britons in the 19th century, for example, contributed posh (port out, starboard home), a way to remember the breeze-cooled side on Indiabound ships. Acronyms first picked up speed in World War I with such coinages as Anzac, for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, AWOL, for absent without official leave, and asdic (Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee), which eventually led to the development of sonar (sound navigation ranging...