Word: oedipuses
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Weary from Washington rehearsals of his opera Oedipus Rex, Stravinsky excused himself at 11 p.m. In an evening devoted to music, no one had performed, so the First Lady pointed her baton to a pianist-gone-wrong, Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger. Salinger, who at one time was considered a sort of musical prodigy, obligingly sat at the piano, ripped off a composition he had written himself...
...woman but he doesn't know it-partly because he is too stupid, partly because he is too weak to face the truth. If he faced it, he would have to give up his unnatural attachment to the girl, and this he cannot bear to do. Like Oedipus, he commits (in attitude if not in act) incest through ignorance, and the penalty for incest, as all myths agree, is dissolution of the personality-sometimes in madness, sometimes in death...
Electro (by Sophocles) has one of those scenes of naked emotional intensity that have been missing on the stage since Olivier gave his howl of self-recognition as Oedipus. It comes when Electra, played by Aspassia Papathanassiou, sees the urn that supposedly contains the ashes of her brother Orestes. She drops where she stands with a wild animal cry; she clutches at the urn, cradles and rocks it in entwining arms, spasmodically tries to breathe it back to life with words of love, smothers it with the salty, sightless kisses of tears, the strangulated sobs of a soul bereft...
...Female Oedipus. Since little is known of the poetess Sappho, Durrell follows history as far as it goes, then dives outward into the freedom of his own imagination. In his play, set on the island of Lesbos in 650 B.C., she is the wife of Kreon, a rich landowner who wishes to become the most powerful economic force in the Aeolian world by recovering a set of deeds from his villa in the old city of Eresos, which has disappeared beneath the sea in an earthquake. He wants to use his power to finance the dictatorship and earth-conquering ambitions...
...title story is linked to the original. Oedipus at Colonos, mostly through the image of an old. maimed man living in the care of his daughter. A disabling illness has put the father in a wheelchair-embittered, suspicious, and nursing a hatred for his schoolteacher wife, who contemptuously doles out his spending money. Daughter Antigone lives in a tight, self-woven net of deceit. She has retained the original name and relentless sense of justice of her counterpart in Sophocles' Antigone, but not her virtue, purity or innocence. She takes on a married man as a lover...