Word: oedipus
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...Italian politicians, especially Christian Democrats, dislike strong leaders, and they will be doubly tempted to cut Moro down-just as they did De Gasperi. Observed one Roman: "Aldo Moro is the father of his party right now, but it's risky being Papa if your children have an Oedipus complex...
Last night Oedipus and his Mothers took their complex rock and roll into Carey Cage, entrancing Dunster date-ettes and awakening frenzied passions with a souped up version of "My Heart Belongs to Daddy...
Fitzgerald is widely known as a translator of classical Greek writings. He has translated into English Homer's "Odyssey," Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus," and, with Dudely Fitts, Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex," Sophocles' "Antigone" and Euripides "Alcestis." In 1961 he won the first Bollingen Award for Translation for his work on Homer's "Odyssey...
Psychology: An Oedipus, Prometheus, Cain, expulsion, Joseph, Jacob, Jesus, or inferiority complex; a frustrated libido or an identity crisis...
...indeed agree with Mr. Bramhall that "The problem is...where, how much, and what kind...." I meant only to question, in the course of a review, proportions the Loeb has used in the past and used once again in the Oedipus readings. Many "average theatre-goers" have joined me in suspecting too great a dependance on "production" devices and too little a reliance on the talents and insights of the actors...