Word: oedipus
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...particular object may belong several noemata, and acts, just as for a particular reference (the planet Venus) there may be several names ("morning star" and evening star"). For instance, Follesdal stated, Oedipus' father was the object both of his son's hatred and his love, because "the noemata of Oedipus' hatred and the noemata of his love were so different that Oedipus did not know that two acts had the same object...
...daddy. What luck! All the elders have slept with the town's 14-year-old nymphomaniac. Smith plots to blackmail them on a statutory rape charge, and the novel is soon awash with sex and violence. The ancient Greeks knew the value of restraint; Oedipus' crime was the more horrible because it was the only one in the play. Swarthout produces so many horrors he satiates the reader. Nobody will be fooled by pseudo-Greek trappings. "This body was as stately," writes Swarthout, preparing for a seduction scene, "as classic in its shaft...
Substitute for Vitality. But Stravinsky, of all living composers, is the one who can least stand still; and today, after moving through the classicist waters of Pidcinella and Oedipus Rex, he has turned to the serial technique. He is as adept as ever at what he once regarded as the discipline of an alien school...
...View from the Bridge. Arthur Miller's attempt to find Greek tragedy in cold-water Flatbush errs in concept but succeeds in details. Raf Vallone is memorable as a stevedore with an offbeat Oedipus complex...
...View from the Bridge. Arthur Miller's attempt to find Greek tragedy in cold-water Flatbush errs in concept but succeeds in details. Raf Vallone is memorable as a stevedore with an offbeat Oedipus complex...