Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Confound their politics/ Frustrate their knavish tricks." Last month the Church of England's Liturgical Commission suggested substituting a kindlier version, written by a London shoemaker in 1836, for use when the anthem is sung at Remembrance Day services for the dead of the two World Wars. Sample lines: "Lord, make the nations see/ That men should brothers...
...Vice President, Quayle has established a right-wing base again, choosing a hard-line and activist staff (unlike Vice President Bush's bland low-profile aides). The number of Ph.D.s is emphasized by his press office (two for Carnes Lord, his national security aide). He recruited from the ranks of believers in the cold war, just before that war's demise, surrounding himself with those who have an investment in it. His chief of staff, William Kristol, is the son of neoconservative Irving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb and is a former aide to William Bennett. Quayle is comfortable with intelligence...
Macha's husband, Ian, the shepherd (Stephen Frick) is a caricature of a fool. Though he is appreciative of womanhood and respectful of his wife, his weaknesses and stupidity are the cause of her wrestling--while pregnant--with Lord Owain. We sympathize with Macha when she asks, "Are all those who practice a gentle touch weak in the brain...
Angus (Richard Nash) is a perverted and deceitful old man who has raped his daughter for most of her life and justified himself by calling it "love." Lord Owain is a macho, sadistic representative of patriarchal society, who not only forces Macha to wrestle him, but wrestles while his wife--to whom he has been unfaithful--dies in child birth...
Until the very end of the play, the men of Monster are devoid of the humanity, which the women like Macha and her child Etain embody. The final resolution, where Lord Owain comes to lay down his weapons and his machismo, is problematic. His character has not been properly prepared for the metamorphosis. His chastity after his wife's death and his late embrace of a more empathetic way of life cannot be convincing, because, throughout the work, his character has been flat and static. Even if we did believe the change, we would know it was not entirely autonomously...