Word: heros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poisoned Darts. Anouilh's hero, Antoine de St. Flour, is dead when the curtain rises. A famed French playwright who retired from the world to a Bavarian Schloss on his 50th birthday, he has been killed in a shotgun accident that may have been a suicide. A group of characters from his past have been summoned for the reading of the will. They make up a nicely varied assortment: two ex-wives-one of them an old dreadnought of an actress superbly played by Françoise Rosay-three mistresses and three men, including a dyspeptic theater critic, jealous...
Among other revelations about the life and times of a folk hero: the familiar story of Dylan's running away from his Hibbing, Minn., home at age 10, 12, 13, 15, 151, 17 and 18, and being brought back all but once, is strictly a publicist's pipedream. "I didn't put out any of those stories." He "didn't get a penny" from the documentary movie about him, Don't Look Back. His best songs have been written in motel rooms and cars. "I try to write the song when it comes . . . And when...
...source. While his play is essentially the story of two couples-one old, one young-who slowly but surely find happiness one Independence Day weekend in pre-World War I Centreville, Connecticut, O'Neill could not leave it that simple or that cute. Instead, he gives us a hero who is a good-natured but pathetic drunk and a heroine who is a lonely schoolteacher. All ends happily in the end, but there is a lot of sorrow along...
...hero, Charles Smithson, a young model of Victorian gentility redeemed by intelligence and irony, is an amateur naturalist and a postulant for the new faith of evolution. But he is still pledged to old pieties through his engagement to the shallow daughter of a rich London merchant. Fowles' strategy is to bring the contradictions of Charles' situation-and, by implication, of the Victorian age-to a crisis...
...told, let us have the whole. Let the young not be misled." Like Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Becker's book explores the whole of war with realism and irony. Becker's hero, astounded at man's inhumanity, rages superbly against the dying of the light...