Word: cassandra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...identity crisis will no doubt someday assume an air of innocence and cherished worth along with the Front Porch, the Soda Fountain and the Family, which now warm the nostalgia of late-night retrospection. Hollywood, which liked to see itself as Everyman's Scheherazade, has also been his Cassandra-the two roles are inseparable...
...human history. And when revolutions come, they inevitably tear into the valuable, the precious and the sanctified as well as into the obsolete and the useless." He told students to "get off the mourner's bench; you must not cloak yourself in the mantle of a wailing Cassandra. The great revolution represents birth pangs and not death throes, the life force and not the death wish...
...letter from a Major Shaw [March 15] criticized an objective and honest commentary on the war as being "shrill with Cassandra's cry." Although misplaced, this classical reference is nevertheless strangely effective. Cassandra, who foretold the doom of Troy, was granted infallible prophetic powers by Apollo. The god later revenged himself upon her by causing every prophecy she made to be totally disregarded. No one ever believed her until it was too late. Perhaps this is true of Americans and the war of today...
...have come to rely upon TIME as a lucid and reasonably objective commentary on the events that are taking place in this world of ours. I find, however, that your recent commentary on the war and the Tet offensive [March 1] is blatant alarmism, shrill with Cassandra's cry and, from my vantage point at least, unsupportable in fact. This is painfully evident to anyone serving here. Your reporting of the impact of the recent offensive on the war, the government, and the economy, is exaggerated and misleading...
...voice of doom in the play belongs to Cassandra, played with cranky, New Yorky irritation by Diana Sands in a black bikini. The voice of reason belongs to Hector, who is humane but soporifically dull, although Philip Bosco has talent enough to take half the curse off the part. As he talks sense to his fellow Trojans and debates with the wily Ulysses, Hector seems always on the verge of averting the madness of war. Actually, it is merely a delaying action against ultimate defeat. For Giraudoux is bent on proving that there is a vile instinct in man that...