Word: journey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With his characteristic classically-conceived "modern" forms and blatantly ugly color palette, Giorgio de Chirico depicts his reaction to modern civilization. In "The Nostalgia of the Infinite" (1913-14) the viewer looks up a towering building, isolated and uncommunicative; in "The Anxious Journey" (1913), he sees a maze of arches and doorways, uncommitted and foreboding...
...exotic sites in medieval Venice, Persia, India, Mongolia and Cathay, there is no mistaking that the target of this epic satire was the materialistic and acquisitive American businessman-a creature that O'Neill also examined in Desire Under the Elms, The Great God Brown, and Long Day's Journey Into Night, and one that still confronts us on every side, in a more notoriously tired form, perhaps, than that characteristic of the twenties. The chief model for O'Neill's Marco, aside from his own father, was the famous financier Otto Kahn, whom O'Neill here pits against the even...
Their first journey into New Hampshire, which holds the nation's initial presidential primary next month, was made two weeks ago on Jan. 21, 22, and 23. Another trip is planned for tomorrow evening, when Goldwater will be campaigning in the southern part of the state...
After being held overnight in Slubice, Field's wife was permitted to continue her journey, but Field himself was placed on an eastbound train and subsequently interrogated and imprisoned...
Though the play contains much of universal relevance, it is also to a large extent a piece a clef. Quentin is obviously Miller himself. The work thus is a significant autobiographical document, and takes its place alongside O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night (although it lacks the sustained power of the O'Neill work...