Word: love
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, Moliere's characterization is his forte: Alceste cannot escape hypocrisy. For him, misanthropy is not incompatible with love. His heartfelt longing for the beautiful, five-timing Celimene permits him to--shudder--ignore her insincerity...
...difficult role to play. Alceste is often the proud, arrogant misanthrope, as when he pompously shreds a fop's attempt at sonnetry. But when near his love, Celimene, he is an absurd blunderbuss...
...pasta, subs." Across the street in the window of Charlie's Deli, next to the German sausage and Jewish salami, are enough green hats to outfit the entire IRA. The leisure suits in the window the Bayview Men's Store have given way to the spring collection of "I Love Southie" t-shirts, and down the street at Leprechaun Imports kelly green covers everything...
...have to be Unitarian to love the Nameless Coffeehouse. And you don't need divine guidance to find it, either. If you like folk music in a mellow setting, you're halfway there already. To get all the way there, head for the Old Unitarian Church in the Square, Friday and Saturday night between...
...Misanthrope. This is quite possibly Moliere's sharpest social commentary, although it bombed in 1666. Alceste is the misanthrope, a man obsessed with sincerity and full of hatred for polite society, which he considers founded on flattery, mendacity and falsehood. Alceste's love for a flitty coquette becomes his last link to mankind. Inevitably, he discovers her insincerity too, reinforcing his misanthropic idealism and leaving him unloved and unloving...