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...sure what about; as he says, "it's really hard to know what you are going into when you start a project. You have to case about for awhile." Next fall, along with editing his summer documentary, Velez will be working ("doing multimedia stuff") on a production of Agamemnon in the Agassiz Theater...
Troilus and Cressida opens with the Greek forces, led by Menelaus' brother Agamemnon, having continually besieged Troy for the previous seven years. Shakespeare concentrates on the opposition between the Greek hero Achilles and the Trojan Hector. Troilus and Cressida is considered a tragedy, playing upon the death of its tragic hero, Hector. Shakespeare also shows how the war caused by one love affair destroys another. The stories of the love between the Trojan Troilus and the Grecian Cressida, encouraged by her uncle Pandarus and of Cressida's desertion of Troilus for the Greek Diomedes, are medieval additions to the heroic...
...charms his way to national classics domination. But most gush about his leadership abilities, politeness, conscientiousness and his ability to tolerate a joke. For the members of the JCL and SCL, the Southern-twanged, buttoned-up persona of Sterling P.A. Darling Jr. has joined figures like Hercules and Agamemnon in a new and improved version of classical mythology...
...though the analogy comes just as close to the Romans. The Gracchi, two highborn brothers in the second century B.C. who scorned their fellow aristocrats and were elected tribunes to effect social good, were both assassinated. But when one thinks of the Kennedys, the Greeks come to mind--the Agamemnon family especially--because one feels that their disasters can only be the result of some terrible curse. It's all nonsense and superstition, of course. But this is what happens when "frail thoughts dally with false surmise" about people and events too big to grasp. The Kennedys instill thoughts beyond...
...there no sense, no purpose, to the universe? Later R.F.K. scrawled on a yellow sheet, "The innocent suffer--how can that be possible and God be just?" He found solace in Aeschylus, memorizing the lines from the Agamemnon that he would use when Martin Luther King Jr. was killed: "He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace...