Word: byronism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Poet' that O'Neill refers to is the nebulous spirit which makes men dream and which the suffering women of the story are meant to understand and love unconditionally. The choice of poets supposedly echoes the American sentiments of the age, with Lord Byron representing Melody's Romantic longing for Old World ways, and Thoreau's Yankee desire for freedom from internal oppression assigned to Sara's lover Mr. Harford, a character we never...
...Neill never completed the other ten. While the conflicts of the play, both domestic and ideological are expertly crafted by O'Neill, he never achieves the necessary element of making us care. Until the last scenes, there is no movement, no reason to watch. The question of whether Lord Byron or Thoreau win in the end is not enough to sustain a drama. By the time resolution is ours, we have little interest in it beyond the academic...
...Medgar Evers boldly declared that "history has reached a turning point, here and over the world." His words, originally intended as commentary on the plight of the civil rights movement, might serve as a profound epitaph for two crucial events of last week--the conviction of Evers' murderer Byron de la Beckwith by a Mississippi jury and the decision by the Clinton administration to normalize relations with Vietnam...
...June 12, 1963, Byron De La Beckwith aimed and fired his deer rifle at the Mississippi field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a father of three. The murder quickly became a watershed in the history of the civil rights movement, a spur to greater national awareness both of the evil of racism and of the collective obligation to remedy...
...With Byron De La Beckwith about to live out his last days in jail and the United States about to embark on an economic relationship with Vietnam, a decade--and with it, a mindset--has passed on. It is left to us at Harvard to follow the lead of the rest of our nation, and to turn the six on our daily planners upside-down to reveal that it is, in fact, a nine...