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...Perhaps Be Damned." Eliot's famous burrowings and borrowings in Baudelaire, Buddha, Frazer's Golden Bough, the Fisher King legend, Shakespeare, the prophet Ezekiel, Ecclesiastes, Dante's Inferno, Rupert Brooke, Richard Wagner, Verlaine, Aeschylus, Ovid's Metamorphoses and Oliver Goldsmith originally helped make the poem the perennial undergraduate's hunt-and-peck guide to instant culture. But there appear to be no direct transplants from Pound. Except for an odd "an" or "who," he inserted only two words into The Waste Land: "demobbed" for "coming back out of the Transport Corps," and "demotic" to replace...
...problem with Miller's version is that it is too single-minded. In his program notes, he quotes three sources to explain his interpretation. The first, a selection from Frazer's Golden Bough, describes a mythic religion in which the priest-king, to gain his office, must slay the old priest-king, and then in turn be on his guard against his successor, who will slay him. The second, from Freud's Totem and Taboo, relates the phenomenon of the young men in the primal horde, who, after destroying the totem/father, whom they perceive as an obstacle to sexual fulfillment...
...first choice of object in mankind," Freud believed, "is regularly an incestuous one." Sir James Frazer, the British anthropologist, also explained the almost universal ban on incest as a necessary safeguard against man's urge to mate with the most available partner: "The law only forbids men to do what their instincts incline them to do." For years, most scientists discounted a contrary suggestion by Finnish Anthropologist Edward Westermarck that close childhood association discourages erotic feeling...
...around here," says Mrs. Howell. "They need help." The people of Breathitt repaid such sentiments last month by flocking to Mrs. Howell's side at a public hearing held by OEO to investigate Nunn's charges against her. Howell supporters turned out in such force that Lynn Frazer, the state economic-opportunity director, walked out, claiming anti-Howell witnesses were being intimidated...
Although Blocker's performance was difficult to match, Leigh Woods as Saul and Frazer Lively as the witch came close. Miss Lively's witch was an imaginative if not completely successful attempt to break away from the stereotype of withered, cackling, old crones. Gaunt she is, but she displays a sensuality when she strokes Saul's cheek that casts doubt upon the depths to which she has plumbed arcane science...