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Placing the plays in chronological order. Berlin outlines O'Neill's innovative style. In The Emperor Jones O'Neill overwhelmingly used symbolism and created the first major part for a Black man. He used The Hairy Ape as a vehicle for a condemnation of the capitalistic, mechanistic materialism of American society. In comparing Yank, the protagonist, to Oedipus and Hamlet. O'Neill is addressing the oldest theme in history--man's struggle with his own fate. The play, Berlin notes, "is more existential than political, more metaphysical and spiritual than social, Man's desire to belong, his quest for belonging...
...they laid him down, "I'm never going to leave this bed again." Johnny Weissmuller was here, but lucidity began to elude him in the darkest hours, and he took to wandering into other rooms, booming that famous Tarzan yell, and they had to take him away. The ape man is now being attended to in a villa in Acapulco, and his bills are seen to by the Motion Picture and Television Fund. The fund also administers the Country House and Hospital, which is not equipped to accommodate any behavioral explosion since one of the principal missions here...
Donkey Kong (Coleco Industries Inc.). Video games continue to crowd TV programs off the family tube. This one, probably the best translation of an arcade game to home use, boasts bemusing graphics and the most congenial cast (savage ape, imperiled heroine, undaunted hero) this side of Dallas...
Fine outspoken Yale President accordingly listed a number of areas ape for reform in the Ivy rules. He told his audience that the wanted to limit off-campus recruiting see changes made in the opposite direction...
When his attention wavers from the buck, ape-neck Stavros is racked by culture shock. Women provide most of the tremors. He half-believes with his sister Fofo that "most American women were, or had recently been, prostitutes." Almost in wonder at his own creation, Kazan watches his protagonist devote "hours to a consideration of the nature of sexual relations in Western society," then come "to the conclusion he'd started with, that the only way to keep a woman in line was to do what the Anatolians do: run off a string of pregnancies, then dress the woman...