Word: agamemnon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unable, throughout his career, to maintain the delicate balance between discipline and affability--taking refuge in a severity which was lightened only by dry puns. The climax occurs when a member of his alienated Greek class presents him, on his retirement, with a copy of Browning version of the "Agamemnon"--second hand--inscribed with a tender quote from Aeschulus. The master breaks into tears and later reveals his unrequitted attempts at winning the affection of his classes and his sexually unsatisfied wife...
Edward Finnegan makes an impressive and pompous Agamemnon. Gregg Martin, as Achilles, is quite as conceited and despicably treacherous as intended. And John Peters plays a delightfully stupid and proud Ajax...
Neither, however, can be compared to Helen of Troy, about whom historians differ. Whether her face launched or on the contrary sank a thousand of Agamemnon's ships is still a meet point...
During this period, American premieres of many French and German plays took place at Harvard, and the Stadium was frequently utilized when a particularly grandiose production, such as "Agamemnon," was projected. At the same time dramatic activities were springing into existence that were not viewed so placidly by the University. In particular, one George Pierce Baker, a professor of English, was showing remarkable talent for teaching the theatre--playwrighting, set-designing, direction, and so forth. His English 47, later known as the '47 Workshop, produced plays by students, among whom can be listed Eugene O'Neill, Philip Barry...
...intrigue me"). Nothing, it seems, came to Gide so easily as tears. The Journals drip from crying jags brought on by Gide's reading, his music, visits to art shows ("visit to the Louvre . . . wept in front of the Rudes . . . in the theater the mere name of Agamemnon is enough. I weep torrents...