Word: poe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William Poe of Duke University states in your article about the care for Harry Truman [Jan. 8], "...physicians are not trained to accept death as an alternative." Should it be otherwise? Philosophically, one can debate the cycle of life and death, but surely a doctor must uphold life above all else. Who is to decide when the quality of life is unacceptable for another person? I think that the question is one of human freedom more than medical ethics, as it is often presented...
Jeffrey Wayne Davies as Bunthorne the mock aesthete who prides himself on the flock of women who adore him creates a dark but wispy Edgar Allan Poe type a creature of irreproachable vanity and matchless hypocrisy. His mastery of the stage the music the orchestra and the audience during the famous "Bunthorne's Song." ("What an extraordinarily deep young man....") has to be seen to be believed He so far outshines anyone who has hit the boards in G&S in recent years including himself in other roles that any attempt to describe him would collapse into superlatives...
...They all prefer this melancholy literary man," picks up in the second act a presence he lacked in the first, and leads his zany band of pseudo-Dostoevskis. Paul Scharfman and Douglas Hunt, on their futile quest for literary prowess, dressed one and all in outfits inspired by Poe out of Oscar Wilde to rival the literary out-of-itness of Bunthorne and his "perfect" rival, Archibald Grosvenor (Marc Jablon). They all emerge, in Gilbert's words, "perfectly utter...
...Hofstadter puts it, "the promise of redemption." Murder has always been a central theme in the arts. There were killings (off stage) in the Greek theater. The Shakespearean stage was often littered with bodies by the fifth act. As early as the 19th century, American writers like Melville and Poe were beginning to show what Historian David Davis had called "un disguised sympathy for sublime murders and amoral supermen moved by demonic urges." That sympathy seems to have deepened recently, especially among movie directors. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. speaks of "a pornography of violence," and Critic Pauline Kael complains that...
...commend your article on the right to die, "Specialty for Losers" [March 13]. However, I do protest the term losers. At 87 I am, like Dr. Poe, old enough to figure how I'd like to be treated. I feel that I am a winner and that my victory would be marred by any inappropriate delay in presenting the award...