Word: patheticism
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Yet one cannot deny the quality of Hippolyte's inspired, innovative sections: the Trio for the Fates in the Hades scene, "Quelle soudaine horreur," with its macabre, Gesualdo-like modulations (superbly sung in the production); Phedre's pathetic scena, "Cruella mere des amours": the Act IV Hippolyte-Aricie duet, "Ah...
The other principal target is a huge, walk-through tableau titled Roxy's, a 1961 re-creation of a 1943 wartime brothel in Las Vegas. One of the girls, Five Dollar Billie, is a mannequin with a virtuous face but a ravaged body (symbolized by a stuffed squirrel climbing...
But most of the other selections are not of such universal interest. The Advocate prides itself on having had contributions from Eliot, E. A. Robinson '95, Wallace Stevens '01, John Reed '10, both Roosevelts, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. '38, and practically every other graduate whose name is familiar. But, distinguished names...
It takes good actors to put over such a dizzy combination of psychology, philosophy, and polemics; and since the Lincoln Center Repertory Company has been taking a lot of gas from New York critics for bad acting, one might have expected Condemned to be over the actors' heads. Happily, this...
KING AND COUNTRY. The trial and execution of a pathetic World War I deserter (Tom Courtenay) mean agony for the officer (Dirk Bogarde) assigned to defend him in this rigorous British drama by Joseph Losey (The Servant).