Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fronts. The lacerating confrontations between Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski, between Big Daddy and his son Brick and Maggie the Cat, are blistering barrages of domestic car nage. They are also metaphors for a more profound and transcendent struggle, the war against the gods, the irrational, immutable duel with destiny, disaster and death - all that is meant when one speaks of man's fate. This is the war that no man wins, and that is why it is called tragic...
...these days admits of many qualifications, including cold or hot, limited, shooting and phony. In a sense, all applied to the gunfire and shelling that raged between Arabs and Israelis across their so-called cease-fire lines last week. Continuing a duel that has been going on almost daily for three weeks, Egyptian and Israeli artillery traded fire over the Suez Canal. Egyptian army commandos, their faces covered with grease, crossed the canal in rubber rafts, killing three Israeli soldiers in patrol-sized firefights. Roaring into Jordan, retaliating Israeli jets blasted two Egyptian-manned underground radar stations...
...Lermontov himself comes into direct conflict with the Czar and must choose whether to run off or to stay for a fixed duel which will make it obvious that he is being killed by the Czar, thus following in Pushkin's footsteps...
...placing their own candidate for Czar on the throne rather than Nicholas I, and Lermontov's "radicalization" or at least politization upon watching the death of Pushkin. Both men's problems with women are also important elements of their lives, portrayed in the first scenes. Pushkin dies in a duel with a favorite of the Czar's, who calls him a cuckold because his wife is having an affair with the Czar...
...Hero" is Mikhail Lermontov, a literary contemporary of Pushkin who was much affected by Pushkin's life, his work, and particularly by the circumstances of the duel in which Pushkin is killed. The action of the play moves back and forth from Lermontov's own life and his more-or-less conscious attempts at emulating Pushkin to the life of Gregory Pechorin, Lermontov's idealized self and the protagonist of his novel, which bears the same title as the play...