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Electro (by Sophocles) has one of those scenes of naked emotional intensity that have been missing on the stage since Olivier gave his howl of self-recognition as Oedipus. It comes when Electra, played by Aspassia Papathanassiou, sees the urn that supposedly contains the ashes of her brother Orestes. She drops where she stands with a wild animal cry; she clutches at the urn, cradles and rocks it in entwining arms, spasmodically tries to breathe it back to life with words of love, smothers it with the salty, sightless kisses of tears, the strangulated sobs of a soul bereft...
Like all the Greek tragedies, Electra is divided into heroes, gods and women. Here, the gods are remote, the hero Orestes largely absent, and it is the women who seem demoniacally possessed. Before the play begins, Clytemnestra and her ambitious paramour Aegisthus murder King Agamemnon, Electra's father, upon his return from the Trojan War. After that, treated like an outcast in the palace, Electra counts on her brother Orestes to return and avenge their father. At Orestes' seeming death, a clever display of Sophoclean theatricality, her hopes are dashed only to spiral into joy when her brother...
...vessel-when the U.S. State Department suddenly announced that the boat was protected by diplomatic immunity and must be returned to Cuba. Although the State Department claimed that no "swap" was involved, it was hardly a coincidence that that same day Castro released an Eastern Air Lines Electra valued at $2,500,000, that had been hijacked and flown to Havana on July 24th. Harris reluctantly released the boat. Said he, in a formal statement: "We recognize the paramount responsibility we have as American citizens, and in an effort to demonstrate national unity, we are relinquishing our equity...
...Aware of this, Cuban officials, though they arrested Cadon, made no effort to keep the DC-8 when it landed in Havana. They offered the passengers daiquiris, sandwiches, and music by a strolling trio before they flew back to Miami. Moreover, Castro offered to trade an Eastern Air Lines Electra, skyjacked earlier (TIME. Aug. 4), for a Cuban patrol boat sailed to the U.S. by Cuban defectors. At week's end the U.S. agreed...
...despised parent on whom she can exercise her hatred than a brother who. by her passionate standards, is not a man. "I followed a kind of hunch, an instinctive, obsessive feeling," says Author Cicellis, ''that Orestes was reluctant to exercise vengeance, not really interested, and that Electra was much closer to her mother than she thought...