Word: aeschylean
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...Santa Croce that was partly destroyed by the 1966 Florence flood, whose sinuous and near boneless body Bacon once startlingly compared to "a worm crawling down the Cross." There are the humping, grappling figures on pallets or operating tables; the twisted, internalized portraits; the stabbings, the penetrations; the Aeschylean furies pinned against the $ windowpane; and the transformations of flesh into meat, nose into snout, jaw into mandible and mouth into a kind of all-purpose orifice with deadly molars, all of which aspire, in the common view, to the condition of documents. Here, one has been told over and over...
...insensible to the central lesson of Watergate, that a seemingly trivial act can take on such Aeschylean significance as to threaten the balance of the world. But it would be wrong to assign all the blame for that state of affairs to Nixon. There were abuses, and actions that were worse than abuses, on all sides. One need not describe the damage, not the least of which is that the U.S. now has a precedent for the removal of an elected President from office through a process of denunciation rather than due process...
This cozy little Aeschylean tangle was just the sort of raw meat that Eugene O'Neill liked to chew on; so he fashioned the plot into his monumental 1931 trilogy Mourning Becomes Electra, set in New England at the end of the Civil War. Now the chiller has come alive again with the premiere of Marvin David Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra at the Metropolitan Opera. It was a cause for rejoicing-and mourning...
...novel should reform itself by drawing upon its ancient Aeschylean and tragic heritage," he wrote to his publisher. "There are a thousand writers who can draw adequate characters till all is blue for one who can tell you anything new about hell fire." Lowry set out to do just that. Most modern men do not believe in hell because they have not been there. Lowry did, because he had been there. He also believed in a number of other unmodern things-that "life is a forest of symbols," in fate, destiny, demons and spells, numerology and divination by study...
Cassandra's farewell to the Sun-a characteristically Aeschylean touch of grandeur, like Prometheus's appeal to the elements--was delivered while half kneeling on the Earth. It concludes with that heart-piercing line, "It is not myself, but the life of man I pity." So saying, this Cassandra, pulling her mantle over her face, rushes with outspread arms to the palace doors, blindly throws them open, and disappears without another sound. But Agamemnon's death cries are heard...