Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot, after completing Murder in the Cathedral, was determined to write a verse play with a contemporary theme and a contemporary setting. The drawing-room setting he contrived was not only fitted for traditional moments of comedy, it made for eerie moments of contrast. The nobleman hero's return to his family, to confess to his own guilty crime while absent and then to smoke out the atmosphere of crime and guilt that haunted his childhood, is charged with ominous Aeschylean echoes. The Greek Furies themselves still hunt the criminal down, until he is able to convert an Orestes...
...conclave, Vatican masons and carpenters will have walled off all except one entrance to a huge area surrounding the Sistine Chapel. The cardinals, each accompanied by two nonvoting assistants, or conclavists, will file through the remaining door into the barricaded area. The marshal of the conclave, usually a Roman nobleman, will lock the door...
...wife and daugher of Cornelius Melody, the dispossessed Irish nobleman who finds himself washed ashore in America with only his pride, are simple folk whose love is such a habit it becomes part of them. For Nora Melody, superbly played by Helen Hayes, her husband is the same grand man who plucked her from amongst the pigs and made her his wife. Her love reaches past respect, for in Melody's rowdy pretense there is little to respect. She is as blind to his failure as she is to any threat to her love...
...also frightened silly because he is a Jewish Polish refugee stranded in Paris as the Wehrmacht plunges toward the city in the late spring of 1940. Cooped up in the same fleabag hotel with him is Colonel Tadeusz Boleslaw Prokoszny (Curt Jürgens), a class-conscious Polish nobleman who lives like the last tassel in the dying lunatic fringe of men dedicated to the proposition that women are to be loved, vodka is to be drunk, war is to be lived and honor is to be died for -preferably all in the same moment. Together they make a team...
...Actually, our choices balance each other quite well," said Sue. "Rajastan is part of the old prince-ruled India, and Madras was 'British India' and is more modern. In Rajastan, we lived with the Thakur of Bissau, a nobleman of old Jaipur state and a member of the Rajput warrior caste, and we shot quail and partridge on weekends. Then we moved to the south, where they are more non-violent. Instead of shooting on weekends, we went birdwatching with our Brahmin editor friends...