Word: aeschylus
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...salt has never lost its savor for Samuel Eliot Morison of Boston. As a boy, he mastered the literature of the sea from Aeschylus to Conrad. As a man, he became a famous historian of the sea (Admiral of the Ocean Sea, History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II). Man and boy, he sailed "down north and up along" the coast of Maine and Nova Scotia summer after summer, and made voyages of opportunity in all quarters of the globe. Now, in a brief delightful memoir, the old salt recalls with affection some of the finest hours...
...imagination, the eagle has long been more a symbol than a bird. It was celebrated by the Egyptians as the bird of the sun, the lion of the sky. It was known to the Greeks as the emissary of Zeus, and blamed in their legends for the death of Aeschylus -an eagle, the story goes, mistook the bald head of the dramatist for a stone and dropped a turtle on it. It is most familiar to Americans as the heraldic symbol on the U.S. Seal of State. But the real-life eagle beggars all symbolic descriptions...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: THE GLASS MENAGERIE (2 LPs: Caedmon). First of a new series that aims to record "the masterpieces of all the great playwrights" from Aeschylus to lonesco. Though it is a rather fragile choice, the play's apartment setting and small cast both lend themselves easily to recording. Montgomery Clift is the warehouse "Shakespeare," and Julie Harris plays the gentle keeper of the glass menagerie. Jessica Tandy does creditably as the genteel chatterbox mother, but the role created by Laurette Taylor seems to have shrunk. And David Wayne sounds too grandfatherly as the Gentleman Caller. Nonetheless, their overall...
...finality, he is not at all averse to inviting an adversary to write a rebuttal that he runs directly after his own piece. The result, says Historian Jacques Barzun, "takes the theater out of the realm of mere grease paint and glamor and into that of ideas and feeling. Aeschylus and Shaw would applaud...
...course it is also possible to read the play as literary criticism in literary terms of the tragic tradition, and of Sophocles' Electra and Aeschylus' Eumenides in particular. Euripides packs his recognition scene with allusions to earlier versions of the same myth and to several apposite situations in Homer...