Word: epigraphs
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Mindful that the work was composed in 1787, on the eve of the French Revolution, Losey chooses to see it as a drama of conflict between a cynical, depleted ancìen régime and the exploited lower orders. He tacks on an epigraph from Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci: ". . . the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appears." His Don, solemnly played by Ruggero Raimondi, is a joyless, brooding creature whose compulsive sexuality is merely a neurotic reflection of social tensions. Losey gives us the least passionate seducer...
...roll what Winston Churchill was to Western democracy, and to many of us there was not a hell of a difference in scale. John Kifner, in his often cruel and amazingly obtuse obituary in the New York Times, wrote. "Sid Vicious played electric bass and vomited," as if that epigraph could contain his short life. It was more, Mr. Kifner, much more than that...
Those lines were written in 1888, when the future Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott was 20 years old. They seem like an appropriate epigraph for this play by Ted Tally, 25, which explores the heart of courage in a white hell of adversity...
...would-be defector who was then holed up in the Metropole Hotel. Lee was recovering from his first public act of violence-a suicide attempt prompted by the Soviets' initial reluctance to let him stay in Russia. To McMillan, Oswald made the astonishing statement that is the epigraph to her book...
...good standing of the Church of Rome" in 1941, the very time when Hitler was violently attacking Catholicism root and branch in his table conversation. Toland's literary pretensions do not help. A section on Hitler's ill health in 1941 is headed-incredibly -by an epigraph from Keats: "O what can ail thee, Knight at arms,/ Alone and palely loitering...