Word: lear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BRADLEY, who wrote the only essay on Antony and Clipatra worth saving, said that the play was less powerfull than the other great tragedies because the element of reconciliation was stressed so forcefully. But if King Lear is Shakespeare's greatest tragedy. Antony and Cleopatra is surely his greatest play. And this is due precisely to the element of reconciliation. Its structure is vast and symphonically cohesive and organic. No play can equal the sustained intensity of the lyrical poetry, the unfailingly perfect interpenetration of theme, plot, character, time image, and metaphor. In Nilus and Tiber. East and West, queen...
...monopoly on the automobile, and because of the nature of the American economy it is difficult for anyone to compete. Jamison documents the competitive attempts of modern steam car builders from the backyard "kooks" who build cars in their homes as hobbies to the efforts of William P. Lear, a self-made multimillionaire who has taken on steam car production as a personal crusade...
Even a financier of Lear's resources and ability has found it difficult to compete with Detroit. Only government backing can provide steam cars with the boost they need to replace the 90 million gasoline engines now on the road...
...Irina Demick) slinks across his pearl-handled pistol sights. Immobile and imperturbable of feature, Gabin looks more and more as if his stolid face belonged on a French equivalent of Mount Rushmore. The final and inevitable disintegration of his family may lack the tragic intensity of King Lear, but it will please devotees of The Godfather well enough...
Although Cortes Wesley Randell, 34, liked to say that he "wouldn't consider hiring anyone over 30," the founder of the National Student Marketing Corp. was hardly a hirsute radical himself. In five years, he worked himself up to a Lear Jet and a $600,000 Virginia horse-country estate by tapping the youth market and using its glamour to make money on the stock market. Then the paper profits suddenly vanished. Last week N.S.M. stock had sunk to $3 from December's high of $72, the Securities and Exchange Commission was looking into insider dealings, and some...