Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brooklyn's joy was shared by the iron-mining hamlet of Witherbee. N.Y. (pop. 1,050), hometown of Johnny Podres, the son of a Lithuanian-American miner. Series Hero Podres, who earns about $1 1,000 for an entire season's work, stayed in Manhattan just long enough to pick up $3,000 for TV guest appearances, and a $9,768 check for his winner's share of the series gate. Then he drove home to Witherbee in a new white Corvette sports car that he won for being the series star. A testimonial dinner was planned...
...Communism might some day thaw. Savchenko, an engineer, even has a vision of the future: "Huge tractors rushing out into the steppe, then corn, lots and lots of corn . . . Anybody would feel happy in such a factory. And there are other things: there's Hamlet." It was "the other things" represented by Hamlet-a monarcho-fascist intellectual degenerate if ever there was one-that got Ehrenburg into all his trouble. The Thaw's plot may be summarized as the ups and downs of a pack of dull-spirited clods on the greasy pole of Soviet respectability. Will Jurayliov...
...sent by his mother, a Government office worker ($3,900 a year) in Chicago, on a family visit to her home town with her uncle, Mose Wright, 64, a sharecropper and sometime preacher. One day a cousin drove him and some other Negro youths to the nearby hamlet of Money (pop. 75) to buy 2? worth of bubble gum. On leaving, his friends later said, Till rolled his eyes and whistled lewdly at a white woman in the grocery, Mrs. Carolyn Bryant, 21. Later two white men took Emmett Till away at gunpoint...
...there is neither sin nor Hell, why do I feel so awful all the time? Since the past is just one damned thing after another, how did I get this way? Since there is no future, what is the use of going on? The Almighty set his canon against Hamlet's self-slaughter, but what is there to hold me back...
...became clear during the question period that the second of the new plays follows a particular idea of tragedy. In answer to Elliot Norton, Miller explained that he believes Hamlet and Oedipus are the two greatest tragedies ever written, although not the best constructed, because they are based on the generally tabooed psychology of the family situation. In his own writing, he said, all men are capable of being tragic characters, regardless of their position in society, since they are all part of a family group. And in the psychological sense, all share feelings of patricide and other unconscious desires...