Word: lied
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HUGHIE is a one-act, 65-minute postlude to The Iceman Cometh and Eugene O'Neill's obsessive theme that truth kills and the lie of illusion nourishes life. In a performance of consummate skill, Jason Robards does precisely what O'Neill always asked of himself, even in lesser plays-he lays his life on the lines...
HUGHIE is a one-act, 65-minute postlude to The Iceman Cometh and Eugene O'Neill's obsessive theme that truth kills and the lie of illusion nourishes life. In a performance of consummate skill, Jason Robards does precisely what O'Neill always asked of himself, even in lesser plays -he lays his life on the lines...
...must confess that my vision was blurred as I read about the "misunderstood (and) unjustly accused" state of Mississippi. Have the overt acts of violence committed by the citizens of this state been completely eclipsed by the gross injustices that have been done to Mississippians? Does the fault lie in others who haven't taken the time to inform themselves of Mississippian definitions of morality and "codes of conduct...
Hughie, by Eugene O'Neill. The Greek poet Archilochus said: "The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing." Eugene O'Neill was a hedgehog playwright, and the one big thing he knew was this: the truth kills-the lie of illusion nourishes life. O'Neill dealt with this theme long and lovingly in The Iceman Cometh. Then, 23 years ago, he wrote a one-act, 65-minute postlude to that play; Hughie is a kind of Iceman's ice cube. But O'Neill was a stage animal to the theater born...
Attitude of Insularity. What are the cords that hold back what was once one of the world's most powerful economies -and now is one of its most troubled? There are no great secrets about the failure of the British economy to meet its challenges: its root troubles lie in listless management, the wasteful use of labor, small-scale and inefficient production and indifferent salesmanship. At the heart of these manifestations is less of an inherent economic weakness than a national attitude of insularity, a stubborn refusal from top to bottom to believe that Britain's standard...