Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saga of the Scythian shepherd who vaultingly subdued half of Asia and Africa is too brutally simple for true drama. With its host of bloody conquests and dearth of inner conflict, with its portrayal of one who toppled realms like tenpins, it scarcely provides even variations on a single theme. As Tamburlaine sweeps on, nothing interrupts his conquests and cruelties but his Marlovian sense of physical beauty and his feeling for Zenocrate, the captive princess whom he loved and lost...
Kokoschka's many other portraits are nervous and feverish. They look hurried. Twenty sanguine drawings, six of which are shown, were actually done in one evening. Kokoschka, however, is not concerned with the external aspects of his subjects so much as with the strange lines of their inner personalities. The results are haunting...
...entirely different role, as the mentally torn major, Richard Kiley does an equally excellent job. With an electric tension displayed even in the curve of his back, he reveals his intense inner preoccupation, while his voice has the dull quality of a man despairing and confused. Here again, the playwrights achieve a real triumph in the development of a character, for there is an implication that the major is motivated not only by heroism plain and simple, but by war-guilt which has gradually caused him to adopt a savior complex. Although somewhat less subtle psychologically, Thomas Carlin's rendition...
From the Tammany Tigers to the Pendergasts and Kellys and Crumps, the lore of the bosses had them as displaying their real inner benevolence by handing out Christmas food baskets and helping poor widows. These things they did, but in quest of power, not out of kindness. To a lavish extent, Frank Hague went through the same motions. As his monument to motherhood, for example, he left behind him the $1.8 million Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital. But Hague was hated and feared, and the secret of his power was that he was feared more than he was hated. Simply...
...Enemy Within. Since his return, the old man has aged fast. In conversation, he sometimes repeats himself. Last September he suffered a mysterious dislocation in the inner ear that some have reported as a slight stroke. Over him hangs a somber sense that time is short and that like Moses he can only point the way to the Promised Land. Delivering his first speech after his return, he seemed even more wrought up about the enemy within than the enemy without, as he denounced his people for putting Zion's cause second to their own comforts and bowing down...