Word: occuring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even ignoring the shortcomings of the production, catharsis cannot occur in the show. Unlike Sophocles's creation, Antigona is not denying societal obligations to hold supreme her familial responsibilities. The Greek Antigone refused to acknowledge that there might be political consequences to her actions. The Latin American Antigona makes a political statement. Antigone acts in disregard of the state; Antigona acts to change it. Calling Creon by his name and not his title, she refuses to admit that the State might be embodied in one man rather than in the relationship between men. Antigona insists on fighting fear, the "putrid...
...addition, there will be Assistant Secretaries for conservation and environment. Among their other tasks, they are supposed to promote methods of energy saving and try to limit the ravages to the land that might occur as the Carter Administration presses ahead with the development of its favorite energy source, coal...
...period presents at least an equal threat of disaster. The danger is twofold: a lack of moisture to nourish either the winter wheat crop, already in the ground, or the crop scheduled to be planted in the spring, and the massive soil erosion almost certain to occur as the windy season now approaching wreaks havoc on dusty acreage unprotected by snow cover. Lack of green grazing land and hay is also forcing cattlemen either to sell off their thin animals at low prices or fatten them on expensive trucked-in feed. As the cost of feed has soared, ranchers virtually...
...know that the South and for all I know the entire U.S.A. is full of demonic women who, driven by as yet unnamed furies, are desperately restoring and preserving places, buildings?" He tosses off witty remarks about the vacuities of Hollywood and about the strange things that occur when the film crew sets up in his town: "What was nutty was that the movie folk were trafficking in illusions in a real world but the real world thought that its reality could only be found in the illusions...
...does not so much deliver her speeches as pour them out and then wait for them to sparkle into laughter. Such moments do not occur often enough, and neither she nor the rest of the fine cast can make a real play out of Guare's imaginative disorder. Gerald Clarke