Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well. In his final contribution to the film's bleak catalogue of miseries, he stabs his rival and flees the town. As he disappears, he be comes all gypsies-the Indians of rope who can neither escape nor brace the present and whose future is foreshadowed with doom...
...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...
...Beginning of Doom. Caesar, at 52, is on the Rubicon, with nine years of conquest behind him; Gaul and its three parts, the German barbarians, the Britons, have all been soundly, brilliantly beaten. Now his spies tell him that the Senators in Rome want to get rid of him as soon as the victory parade is over. Caesar is a visionary; they know it and fear him for it. He wants power to establish order, to set up a world republic; the corrupt bosses want to split the spoils he has won so dearly. Question: Should he return to Rome...
...enemy. Yet his special mixture of idealism and cynicism makes a poor weapon against the greed, ignorance and envy of his political foes. His subjects look upon him as a god, and soon, the reformer begins to see himself that way too. It is the beginning of his doom...
...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...