Word: oedipuses
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...only surprises Cocteau prepared for his entry into the academy, however, were his costume, an especially fancy Académie uniform tailored (by Lanvin) of midnight blue instead of the traditional green with gold braid, and his sword (by Cartier) with a hilt modeled to represent a profile of Oedipus. In his initiation speech, Cocteau turned the flow of his conversation on the Immortals with a respect tempered only gently by the old glint of satiric impertinence. "The time is coming when one will no longer be able to read or write, when a few mandarins will whimper secrets...
...have never been able to decide whose theories are more incredible-those of Sigmund Freud, or his disciple, Ernest Jones [Sept. 19]. Freud invented the Oedipus complex, but Jones went him one better with a grandmother complex...
...became clear during the question period that the second of the new plays follows a particular idea of tragedy. In answer to Elliot Norton, Miller explained that he believes Hamlet and Oedipus are the two greatest tragedies ever written, although not the best constructed, because they are based on the generally tabooed psychology of the family situation. In his own writing, he said, all men are capable of being tragic characters, regardless of their position in society, since they are all part of a family group. And in the psychological sense, all share feelings of patricide and other unconscious desires...
...Stravinsky's 1927 opera-oratorio, Oedipus Rex, preceded by Ernst Krenek's three Medea monologues, sung by the Met's Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom...
...edge of Apacheland and, unloading his merchandise, moves out to some nearby salt lagoons to get a cargo for his return trip. Suddenly a line of horsemen come galloping along the skyline. Apaches? No, it's a psychotic cowboy (Alex Nicol) and his henchmen. Before you can say "Oedipus complex," Nicol has galloped down the ridge, lassoed Jimmy, dragged him through a bonfire, killed his mules and burned his wagons...