Word: incestousness
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...dominates all the scenes of the play. With a sonorous and resonant voice, he conveys to perfection the character of a man who is physically helpless but spiritually strong; a man who, like King Lear, proclaims himself "more sinn'd against than sinning;" a man who, although having committed incest and parricide, is not morally guilty, and arrives at a wiser view of sin in which his past deeds are not crimes but sorrows. The denunciatory "kakon kakiste" speech to Oedipus' wayward son Polyneices is particularly outstanding, and all the more terrifying for being a deviation from a generally restrained...
...industry spokesmen conjured up several novel defenses of their wares. Columbia's Jerry Wald asserted the right of U.S. moviemakers, unlike that of Soviet producers, to criticize their country's seamy side; Motion Picture Industry Councilman Lou Greenspan fell back on the Bible, where "murder, adultery, even incest are described." One movie adman piously explained, when Kefauver cited an advertisement showing two scantily clothed lovers grappling suggestively, that it could have been worse: "In the original [drawing] submitted to us they were clad only in beads. We at least put pants on the woman...
...birth control. Russell asks: "Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister; should they let the human race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think H can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked." The problem of ethics grows as it is touched by religion. Biblical authority, says Russell, is sometimes contradictory: "Should a childless widow marry her deceased husband's brother? Leviticus says no, Deuteronomy says yes (Leviticus 20: 21; Deuteronomy 25:5)." Knowledge Is Virtue. An unswerving atheist, Russell...
...Land by the infidel and lashed to a mill which he is forced to turn like an ox. His son Herbert le Gros, a gay blade who lives life to the hilt, meanwhile sticks to the manor, takes all the land and love he can get, and happily commits incest with his wild and passionate half sister, who hates him ("I shall . . . make his blood rot, send snakes to drink his eyes, and leeches to suck his heart...
...verse play which offers the only real chance for experimental work. Williams, in combining wild imagery, a guitar player, and a chorus, has attempted to give unwarranted significance to absurd instance of human frailty. Set in the western deserts, the play takes the form of a trial in which incest and murder provide the basis for quantities of poetry...