Word: lear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presumed contempt for the common people, he was by no means taking his hero's side. The play portrays the fickle, mindless mob as the poor creature of human vanity, but it also exhibits a fiery, mindless Coriolanus as the victim of inhuman pride. Unlike the willful Lear, the willful Coriolanus cannot term himself more sinned against than sinning; also unlike Lear, he is hardened and envenomed by adversity. He is prevented from destroying Rome only by the pleadings of his mother Volumnia, who, in high Roman fashion, helps doom her child to save her fatherland...
...event, it is lear that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce proposal boils down to paying the Federal government's share of the cost of old age assistance (which is based on need) out of payroll taxes instead of general taxes. Moreover, contrary to what Mr. Campbell alleges, the poorer States would suffer greatly, if the present Federal grants for old age assistance were abolished. The official data show that the States as a whole would lose about $284,000,000 and the poorer States about $110,000,000 a year under the U.S. Chamber of Commerce original proposal (which according...
...this time, Marius' own end is in sight. His mind cracks. In the novel's closing scenes, grim as any in recent fiction, Marius babbles like a seagoing Lear ("Clear away aft ... let go for'ard") and mistakes his mother for his favorite brothel companion. Unmoved, smugly vengeful, she gloats: "God has drawn down the blind. That is only just ... He is overthrown and that is just...
Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). Orson Welles in King Lear...
Everything But Guts? He married again, another Mary. Before long, her mind began to go to pieces. Booth became used to running to & fro between stage and dressing room, Hamlet or Lear at one moment, nurse to a hysterical woman the next. Then the second Mary died, and Booth was alone except for his daughter Edwina...