Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Times' article also implied that the first of the three productions would star Burgess Meredith in "Hamlet" and that Arthur Kennedy and Mildred Dunnock would act "King John" in the second bill, if they were available...
...Hamlet or Othello? The book is an exercise in anti-gullibility, an examination of the totalitarian sophistries about the free world which democrats have often uncritically swallowed. The prime myth of the totalitarians. Nazi. Fascist or Communist, is that they are modern, "the wave of the future." In reality, they are as age-old as tyranny. According to the Soviet Union, "an ineluctable law governs history" in their favor; yet it requires nothing less than "a constant reign of terror to crush the plots that might alter its unalterable course." The secondary myths are that the totalitarians are young, strong...
...rigor of the dogmatic one-opinion police state leads only to rigor mortis: "To believe that music must bring forth Leninistic harmonies, that physics must be de-Semiticized . . . non-Aryans sterilized, the kulaks exterminated: to believe all this, even unanimously-above all unanimously-must lead a people to catastrophe . . . Hamlet is frequently cited as an example of the tragedy caused by thought not followed by action, but, as Bertrand Russell judiciously observes, the totalitarians ought rather to meditate upon the fate of Othello, on the disasters provoked by action not preceded by thought...
...Sicily's bleak, bandit-ridden "Triangle of Hunger," where he had lived as a boy. There, in the fishing village of Trappeto, with his own meager savings and a few small contributions from outside, he put up a collection of shacks and shanties which he called "the Hamlet of God" to provide shelter for the area's neediest cases. He married an impoverished widow with five children; together they adopted five more childen...
...simple Irish lass named Bridey Murphy has now resolved the puzzle that so troubled Hamlet. Bridey died in Belfast in 1864, but in 1952 and '53 she came back from "the undiscover'd country" to tell a well-to-do Colorado businessman and amateur hypnotist named Morey Bernstein what it is like after death...