Word: grief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lady Bird knows all too well the special function of work in this "new season" of her life. She recognizes it as an "antidote to grief" but knows also that its effectiveness cannot last. "The worst may yet be ahead for me. Somewhere down the road the sadness will come crushing down on me." Already, she acknowledges, "the sadness is all-consuming at times...
OUTWARDLY, Lady Bird is as composed and gracious as she was in the White House, greeting callers with the same wide smile and vibrant enthusiasm that she displayed when Lyndon was alive. That part is not difficult, she explains, because "grief carries its own anesthesia. It gets you over...
...murders Agamemnon upon his return from the war. The dead king's son, Orestes, goaded to revenge by his sister Electra, proceeds to murder his mother and Aegisthus. Rabe has drastically minimized Electra's role, but he provides two Clytemnestras, possibly to differentiate the mother's grief from the lust and vengefulness of the mistress (Rae Allen...
There were moments both inspirational and horrifying which will not be forgotten. One remembers the immense human carpet covering the grounds of the Capitol after Cambodia, collectively pleading for the termination of that outrage. One's memory then telescopes into the personal expression of grief on the face of a girl weeping over a friend's body at Kent State...
Ritter's contribution is one of a very few lively and enlightening pieces in The Vonnegut Statement. But good grief! A term paper on Vonnegut? Kurt Vonnegut Jr., the author of Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, God Bless You, Mr. Rose-water and Slaughterhouse-Five? Vonnegut, that enemy of pretension who writes about the cosmos and fate as if God were a tricky garage mechanic? Since the late '60s, following the republication of some of the early novels, students have indeed been assigned Vonnegut term papers...