Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, the human truths in this drama by Euripides are still as fresh as open wounds. Directed with musical cadence and poetic tension by Michael Cacoyannis, the story of Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter for the Greek cause is a moving lament for all who die young in war. As Clytemnestra, Irene Papas brings the adrenal flow of a mother's love and grief to the stage...
...surgical teams at more than 20 medical centers around the world have been standing ready to make the first transplant of a heart from one human being to another. What they have been waiting for is the simultaneous arrival of two patients with compatible blood types-one doomed to die of some disease that has not involved his heart, and a second doomed to die of incurable, irreversible heart disease...
When did Denise Darvall die? Explains Dr. Marius Barnard, 40, younger brother of Christiaan and his right-hand assistant during surgery: "I know in some places they consider the patient dead when the electroencephalogram shows no more brain function. We are on the conservative side, and consider a patient dead when the heart is no longer working, the lungs are no longer working, and there are no longer any complexes...
...awaiting. It came from Philadelphia's Jefferson Hospital: an anencephalic boy was born there the day after Washkansky's surgery. Dr. Kantrowitz talked with the parents, whom he described, in broad understatement, as "intelligent and understanding." They agreed to let Kantrowitz take their baby to Brooklyn to die, and to transplant his heart...
...which floats through the end of the song. Why Lear? Well, it's a play about madness, and everybody's going mad. But why the death of Oswald? The recording did come out on the anniversary of the weekend when Lee Harvey Oswald killed a great ruler and then died himself. Maybe the Beatles are ironically saying that degraded, crazy Oswalds can change the course of the world. And maybe the Lear allusion explains that most men no matter what staggeringly infamous deeds they perform, will die insignificant deaths...