Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...venomous and vibrant intimacy that the English translation, transmitted at the City Center on transistor earphones, fails to reflect. In a cast that achieves a triumph of ensemble playing, Clytemnestra is coolly reptilian, and Aegisthus is a strutting upstart of self-aggrandizement who yet meets his implacable doom with dignity...
...with Inside Europe a quarter-century ago. In Inside Europe Today he surveys the new faces and altered conditions of a continent that has "immeasurably, fantastically" changed since 1936. The most striking change he found is one that makes Inside Europe Today a less urgently important book than its doom-shadowed predecessor. This change, in Gunther's view, is today's near-impossibility...
What does not bear thinking about is what is going to happen. A Hemingway character does not make things happen; things happen to him. Hemingway's people often seem like masochistic spectators of their own doom. In The Killers, Nick Adams rushes to the boardinghouse room of the ex-prizefighter Ole Andreson to warn him that two gangsters are in town to kill him. "There isn't anything I can do about it," says Ole Andreson. lying on his bed and turning his face fatalistically to the wall. There isn't anything any Hemingway character...
...Franklin's Kite. The 17th century is the great divide, as Steiner sees it. After that, tragedy is doomed by a triple decadence-the decline of the word, the myth, and the audience. Verse succumbed to prose, and prose itself, Steiner feels, is now debased, stale and lackluster. Both the Greek myths and Christian values were ravaged by rationalism. In tragedy, "lightning is a messenger. But it can no longer be so once Benjamin Franklin has flown a kite to it." The audience changed most of all. The rising middle class was not interested in the fall of princes...
...POLISH: Ashes jaid Diamonds is a powerful and ironic farewell to arms, set Poland in the days just after the Nazi surrender. In Kanal, a group of resistance fighters, trapped in the sewers of German-occupied Warsaw, struggle to their doom A welcome break in the lowering skv comes with Eve Wants to Sleep, a zany cops-and-robbers farce, whose cops are Keystone and whose badmen are clearly friends of Mack the Knife...