Word: icarus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozens of others. The "something extra" that Ovid brings to each saga is the saving detail of homely human interest, and Translator Humphries helps bring it out with homely colloquial touches of his own. As Daedalus fashions feathers into wings for the fateful flight from Crete, his playful son Icarus...
...final rehearsal week, all other performances were canceled. It was necessary: the opera has some 18 scenes, uses specially filmed movie footage (doves, clouds and scenes of violence) plus so-odd full-color still projections (including El Greco's Toledo and Bruegel's The Fall of Icarus'). The cast included a chorus of 100, 48 solo parts and some 150 extras (redskins, sailors, Mexican gods...
...plot of Escapade is a whips about a Pacifist whose three sons flee boarding school, steal a plane, and fly to Geneva with an adolescents' peace petition. The play proves above all that children must be seen if the audience is going to hear abut them all evening. Icarus, the eldest son, is constantly discussed but is never on the stage. By description, he seems so colorful that it is curious for playwright Roger MacDougall to waste time with the boy's parents...
...Jorge Carrera Andrada, an Ecuadorian Romantic: "This is the epoch of Icarus' fall, the epoch of burned wings; the poet has become a simple son of the earthly city." (Most of the poets present looked fairly earthly: no-hairs far outnumbered longhairs, and there were only two beards among the 200 bards...
Dave, a philosophy major, now says he thought ruefully as he fell of the Greek concept of hubris-the Icarus complex that drives men to overweening aspirations. Being a practical physicist, Jim sank his ax handle in the solid snow and held on for dear life...