Word: orestes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through the window like Batman climbs Professor Orest Ranum, liberal, his academic robes billowing in the wind. We laugh at his appearance. He tells us that our action will precipitate a massive right-wing reaction in the faculty. He confides that the faculty had been nudging Kirk toward resignation, but now we've blown everything, the faculty will flock to the support of the President. We'll all be arrested, he says, and we'll all be expelled. He urges us to leave...
...through the window like Batman climbs Professor Orest Ranum, liberal, his academic robes billowing in the wind. We laugh at his appearance. He tells us that our action will precipitate a massive right wing reaction in the faculty. He confides that the faculty had been nudging Kirk toward resignation, but now we've blown everything; the faculty will flock to support the president. We'll all be arrested, he says, and we'll all be expelled. He urges us to leave. We say no. One of us points out that Sorel said only violent action changes things. Ranum says that...
...last week's performance, Strauss's one-act shocker still had plenty of power - from the moment the enlarged orches tra came crashing to life, through the frankly erotic music accompanying the incestuous recognition scene between Elektra and Orest, to Elektra's shrieking "Stab her once more!" at the news that Klytaemnestra had been struck down. But the performance also was a reminder that Elektra no longer has the almost physical shock value it possessed in Strauss's time: overlaying the stark story is a thin coat ing of German Gemütlichkeit that too often...
...operation that might have been questionable for the U.S. Marines," said Mauston District Attorney Roland Vieth. It was also an operation that had destroyed the pleasures of their new homeland for the bereaved parents. Peter Kurylak, whose lost twelve-year-old, Orest, had been born in a German D.P. camp, spoke for all of them: "I did not send my boy to the Army. I sent him to camp to relax, to get away from the city and the traffic. Twelve years I was working for that one son I had. I drove him to school when he was little...