Word: demonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...husband records in Downhill All the Way, their middle age suffered "the erosion of life by death," as many of their demon friends died after 1932, including Roger Fry, Julian Bell and Lytton Strachey. The tempo of Virginia's life was made desperate by the threat of a second war. Perhaps the entire Bell biography can be read as the history of a woman's progression towards lunacy. She lived through the Battle of Britain, but fearing the onset of another attack of madness she was convinced would be incurable, she drowned herself in March...
...forces within the same being. Anthony stands for Art untrammeled by mundane affairs; Brown for the etiolated Babbittry of Commerce. But Dion is himself divided, his first name standing for Dionysius, the creative-erotic life force, and his last name Anthony for "a saint in the desert, exorcising a demon." In plot terms, Anthony goes to work for Brown and loses his creative urge and his life. But to secure Anthony's widow (Catherine Helmond) Brown must don Anthony's mask to appropriate Anthony's passion. Thus a transfer of identities is completed. Finally, each character...
...Demon at Sea The Lehman Hall version of the new 30's musical is delighted in every way, with six talented performance taking each Broadway cliché as far as it will go, which in this case is beyond dry land. There are plenty of surprises here and not one actor takes his clothes off. Patience The Gilbert & Sullivan Players milk this satire of 19th century aesthetes for all its considerable. But keep your eyes closed because the set and costumes aren...
Through it all he faces death unrepentant. "I don't feel guilty for a goddam thing I've done on earth," he says. "I believe it was Thoreau who said, 'What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?' And if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior." It seems a fitting epitaph for Washington's last angry...
...Miller familiarized: Shopworn sales talk has become the idiom of a society based on manipulation, commercial go-getting has been universalized as a private ethic, preservation of personal integrity means self-destruction. These are his cool assumption, the truisms of one who has seen-it-all. Sentimentially is a demon to him, so he lavishes heavy filmic methods in an effort to play it tough, and it is wholly at the expense of his material. He has twisted the form of his film into the shape of his gnomic self-consciousness...