Word: cassandra
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...Troy? The men dead in the streets, the flesh of hips forced up by the hard cobbles? Law died with them. . . The image of Troy's order lies decaying in over twenty-thousand dead men's eyes." Sometimes, Mr. Alfred injects humor which heightens the tone of the tragedy; Cassandra says, "Lift that thing off him." "He's naked ma'am." "Is that what you call Greek reason." His transitions from heroic phrasing to the coloquial are smooth and consistent for the most part...
...play will be two undergraduates P. Michael Mabry '53 and Donald O. Stewart '53, two teaching fellows, Robert F. Rockman and Joseph D. Everingham, as well as several graduates Elizabeth Richards '53 plays Cassandra...
...said of Sir Stafford: "His favorite drink is water; his favorite food, a scraped carrot. While in politics he is left of the left, in matters of right and wrong he is inclined to be right . . . He is gifted with a winning voice which can make the warnings of Cassandra sound like the love note of Apollo...
Even if Adams had done none of these things, one other achievement would stamp him with the stripe of genius: his wonderful letters. To those who automatically pigeonhole Adams as a crotchety Cassandra, Biographer-Critic Newton Arvin's springy sampling of the voluminous correspondence will come as an eye opener. Tart as alum and economical as Japanese prints, the letters also spill over with sensuous responses to life as scandalous in a proper Bostonian as living on capital...
...Japan, there were variations of misunderstanding. The Japanese were "polite, industrious little people" until Pearl Harbor, brutal savages until V-J day, have been enthusiasts for democracy since. Warns Maurer: beneath surface "democratization" lurk the fixed feudal habits of centuries. A good Quaker by faith, and no Cassandra, Herrymon Maurer believes the West can retrieve its errors if it recognizes that "other persons . . . must be treated as ends in themselves, not as means to some other...