Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your review of Oedipus [Oct. Ill, you castigate Chris Plummer for making the King of Thebes "arrogant rather than hubristic," his fate more like "a matter of just deserts than a result of the awesome machinations of Apollo." Face it, baby: Apollo is dead. Nobody prays in the Theater of Dionysius today. And whatever the 20th century gods do, they don't machinate. Sophocles' play, though, lives on. Ever wonder why? Chris was trying to tell you, but you didn't listen...
...never even meant to be a contender for the crown. He is, in effect, an ordinary man forced to stand on the sidelines and cheer bitterly. "I fought because I understood, and could not bear to understand, that it was my destiny-unlike that of my father, whose fate it was to hear the roar of the crowd-to sit in the stands with most men and acclaim others. It was my fate, my destiny...
over man's riddling fate...
...something: Charles Whitman or Fate...
...likelihood, that will not be the fate of Luciano Berio. Last week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, Berio led the New York Philharmonic and the Swingle Singers in the world premiere of his Sinfonia. It is a white-hot musical experience that invokes the malaise of the times better than all the sit-ins, beards, beads and clubbings that wrench contemporary life...