Word: aeschylean
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...traditional moments of comedy, it made for eerie moments of contrast. The nobleman hero's return to his family, to confess to his own guilty crime while absent and then to smoke out the atmosphere of crime and guilt that haunted his childhood, is charged with ominous Aeschylean echoes. The Greek Furies themselves still hunt the criminal down, until he is able to convert an Orestes-like fleeing from doom into a Christian pursuit of salvation. Against this search for light are placed things blind and self-centered in contemporary life-a mother's passionate willfulness, a smug...
...favorite reading as a child. Like Sophocles' Oedipus, struggling to gauge the future and discovering that it twists horribly back into his own past, the characters in Two Worlds march blindly to their fate, doomed from the start but always demanding, with the eloquence and dignity of Aeschylean heroes, their right to respect as well as humiliation. They always get plenty of both from Ivy Compton-Burnett...
Seldom have the trials of a movie exhibitor been dramatized with such Aeschylean awfulness as by Manager W. H. M. Watson in last fortnight's Motion Picture Herald. Manager Watson runs El Paso's Mission Theater. "From the beginning," he writes, "the boys and some of the girls . . . decided they were going to run things as they pleased." Sometimes "when told not to roam the aisles, to quit talking, smoking, etc., they would sneer or spit in your face." Plenty of the young folks smoked marijuana. In the Mission's first three months, Manager Watson lost three...
Empyrean, Aeschylean...