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...million following the Turkish invasion, an increase of more than $13 million over the previous quarter. The State Department claimed that the increase was due to delivery of four F-4 fighters that had been ordered in 1972. Greek Cypriot newspaper reaction was bitter. Editorialized the right-wing Agon, official newspaper of Clerides' Unified Party: "Our conclusion can only be one: that if Turkey carries out its threat [for renewed fighting], the real culprits will not be in Ankara but in Washington...
...second act, the galvanic Big Daddy won't tolerate Brick's detachment. The two of them, alone on stage, have a knock-down drag-out dispute in the tradition of the Greek agon. This is the most powerful scene in the play, and one of the most powerful in modern drama. Williams is often at his most effective when he is autobiographical. Tom and Laura in Menagerie were modeled on the playwright and his introverted sister Rose, who had to be institutionalized for life. The confrontation in Cat was his way of trying to exorcise the demonic memory...
...Eliot, Fragment of an Agon...
...Agon. That masterpieces resulted anyway was amply proved last week as the New York City Ballet staged one of the cultural, or craftsmanlike, events of the decade. Billed as a Stravinsky Festival, the weeklong affair was nominally in honor of what would have been Stravinsky's 90th birthday. But the festival-featuring 3 1 ballets, of which 21 were world premières, set to Stravinsky's music-was also a celebration of the greatest single creative partnership in the history of ballet. It had its start when the two Russian émigrés were brought together...
...home. Yet the two rivals maintained a chilly distance from their respective hilltops. It was only in 1953, two years after Schoenberg's death, that Stravinsky finally embraced serialism. Of the dozen or so twelve-tone works he produced prior to his death, the best by far were Agon (1957), Movements (1960) for piano and orchestra, and the "Huxley" Variations...