Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modern writer resist returning to the Greek myths to explore their endless, labyrinthine paths and to remap their ambiguous meanings into the maze of the twentieth century? The myths are so rich in tragedy, epic lives, passionate ideals, saturnalian revelry, and comic twists of fate that they beg for modernization. Claiming such undertakings to be bastardizations, staid classicists might curse the lack of inspiration, the sterility of these transformations. "Myths," said Camus, "are made for the imagination to breathe life into them." John Gardner's epic poem, Jason amd Medeia shows that the modern imagination, violently panting while it makes...
...prime crewmen for the mission-seemed to be particularly interested in another American spacecraft. While touring a mock-up of the giant Skylab space station-which is significantly larger than the Soviet Salyut-they poked into every compartment within sight, flipped countless switches, and bombarded their hosts with endless questions...
...outdoor cafe that provides a front row bleacher seat as to who's who at the Casablanca (where the preppies hang out for their booze). Grendel's Den (on Boylston St. across from the Hungry Persian) is a basement coffee house with great spicy shiskebab, an endless selection of the most select folk rock albums, and some of the most carelessly elegant counterculture waiters around...
This aversion to mass murder of any sort, which grew with each year of the seemingly endless bombing, napalming and free-fire zones, explains why a growing number of people, eventually including a majority of the American population, called for withdrawal from Vietnam. The continuing carnage sickened even those on the moderate right, and the unity against the killing gradually broadened...
...Stephen Sondheim (the Broadway composer who is himself a famous game player) and Anthony Perkins (the estimable actor) have outsmarted themselves in crafting their script. Their plot is so fiendishly difficult that their characters spend most of the time bogged down in endless expository scenes...