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...Associated Television and WGBH-TV in Boston, after will televise it for U.S. viewers on May 12, was intended as "a serious and concerned journey into the Arab world," in the words of U.S. Executive Producer David Fanning, But within hours of the broadcast, Saudi Arabia reacted with a howl of protest. The Saudi embassy in London denounced the film as a "sensation-seeking piece of fiction" and "an unprincipled attack on the religion of Islam." What seems to have particularly offended the Saudis, besides the vivid re-enactment of the executions, was a series of scenes depicting the royal...
...civil rights movement, in Brown vs. the Board of Education, in E.D. Nixon and his Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. It is grounded in the "new values" of Jack Kerouac's prose--an inspiration for Tom Hayden--and of Allen Ginsberg's poetry, particularly his seminal work, Howl. And from those seeds, Viorst says, "the Movement" rose up, at times singularly eloquent, at times wanton and reckless. In an epilogue, Viorst says the '60s taught Americans that their country was not immune to social disorder--the kind of disorder that titillated Viorst's instincts and offended his middle class values...
...dumped before Hecuba's gaze. She is past weeping by now. She wants the gift of death, surcease from all sorrow. But she has a priority: vengeance. Before the final curtain, Polymestor lurches forward on all fours, his eye sockets craters of streaming blood. He utters the primal howl that punctuates these plays. It is the moment when all reason has toppled and the dogs of fate rend man with total indifference. In Shakespeare's words, "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport." And the sport has not finished...
...generations, germinated in [the] father ... now broke through energetically in the son.' The great pathologist Carl von Rokitansky had his paternal dreams of glory fulfilled when he could boast of his four sons that they were divided in their careers between singing and medicine: 'Two howl and - two heal...
...passages of aching poignancy: "The lowest, the most downtrodden, the most miserable of Shikastans will watch the wind moving a plant, and smile; will plant a seed and watch it grow; will stand to watch the life of the clouds. Or lie pleasurably awake in the dark, hearing wind howl that cannot - not this time - harm him where he lies safe. This is where strength has always welled, irrepressibly, into every creature of Shikasta...