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...about "Our Wasted Intellectuals" in the July 6 issue of Commonweal. "This is simply not good enough. Parish activities, where the featured speaker is a football coach, are not good enough, nor are bazaars, nor novenas." Parish life, he says, often gives "a great and deep sense of being outcast, and of being abandoned by the Church...
...school, but she goes on for two years of commercial training. In all her jobs, however, her bosses try to seduce her; it is a coworker, Mario, to whom she gives herself, but she does not love him. Her efforts to raise herself to bourgeois respectability make her an outcast at home, while her attractiveness to hungry employers makes her feel unable to continue working...
Nowhere is the struggle more apparent than in Red China's own backyard. Last week nine parties-North Viet Nam, North Korea, Burma, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaya, Australia, New Zealand and Belgium -joined Peking in sending congratulatory telegrams to Tirana for the outcast Albanian Communist Party's 20th anniversary.* The parties in Red China's key neighbor states-Japan and India...
...matter, but the unfulfilled expectation of substance does. There is only one major character, and he is not very interesting, even to himself. His name is Adam Rosenzweig, a young Bavarian Jew whose crippled left foot requires him to wear a special boot (his Jewishness makes him an outcast and his lameness, melodramatically, makes him doubly so-Warren still does not trust his own skill). Exalted with a vision of freedom, Adam decides to migrate to the U.S. to fight with the union in the Civil...
...women. Here, the gods are remote, the hero Orestes largely absent, and it is the women who seem demoniacally possessed. Before the play begins, Clytemnestra and her ambitious paramour Aegisthus murder King Agamemnon, Electra's father, upon his return from the Trojan War. After that, treated like an outcast in the palace, Electra counts on her brother Orestes to return and avenge their father. At Orestes' seeming death, a clever display of Sophoclean theatricality, her hopes are dashed only to spiral into joy when her brother reveals he is alive in the famed recognition scene. Up to this...