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Word: enigmas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE IS a collection of essays called Hamlet: Enter Critic in which critics do their thing with what is perhaps the greatest work in English literature. They are essentially puzzled over the play's great enigma: what took hamlet so long in acting to avenge his dead father? Among the theories advanced are that Hamlet was fat, and consequently moved slowly in doing anything; that Hamlet hand an Oedipal relationship with his mother and therefore blamed himself for his father's death; and finally, an Elizabethan determinist interpretation that Hamlet's humours mixed in such a way that...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: The Theatregoer Hamlet | 12/13/1969 | See Source »

Know thyself, said the ancients. Man cannot know himself, say the moderns. He is the enigma of enigmas, a brute wrapped in reason, an innocent ensnared in sensuality, a master builder of societies and civilizations who wrecks them like a frustrated child. This is the underlying theme of British Playwright Edward Bond's Narrow Road to the Deep North, which is having its U.S. premiere run at Boston's Charles Playhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Kdang! | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...TIME is probably right as to the survival of La Cosa Nostra "until there is a popular revolt." Precisely why public indignation is a prerequisite to the enforcement of law remains an enigma. I had supposed the protection of the public through legal processes was the fundamental excuse for a government's existence. But if the weapon of public indignation is required to "knock off" the new breed of gentle hoods, let us indignate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 5, 1969 | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

...Gypsy Moths is Frankenheimer's latest and most clinical conjugation of courage, a brooding tale of three stunt parachutists bound by the brotherhood of danger. Rettig (Burt Lancaster) is a moody enigma who gets his kicks by pulling his rip cord at the last possible moment. Browdy (Gene Hackman) looks like something out of Sinclair Lewis, a perspiring, frenetic showman who goes to confession before every jump. Malcolm (Scott Wilson) is a kid trying to challenge the deadening effects of a loveless, lonely childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Conjugation of Courage | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

...Scheffer's vision, the whale, for all his mammoth visibility, becomes the ultimate enigma in the enigma of the sea: "A hundred chemicals and a million living sparks and a billion bits of drift, no two alike ... an endless, moving, thin, transparent soup; a cosmic stock forever old and ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mighty Mystery | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

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