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Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill, seems, after 38 years, as familiar as inherited folklore. It is the mid-19th century New England saga of the flinty, greedy. God-bedeviled, lust-maddened Cabot clan and its internecine struggle over the family farm. To possess it. the sons wish their father dead, brother plots against brother, a young woman marries a fanatical old man, seduces his son to obtain an heir, and murders the infant to repossess the son's love. George C. Scott plays the fire-breathing old father Ephraim with monomaniacal force. As the woman...
...alienation from himself, from other me, from the absolute. "The crows maintain." he wrote, "that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of this, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heavens simply means: the impossibility of crows." Heavens that possess crows must stop being heavens; laws that touch men abandon justice...
Deep down, India and Pakistan possess an enormous reservoir of mutual good will. But they have been sorely in need of sympathetic guidance from the more sophisticated democracies of the West to resolve their unfortunate political differences and establish a great alliance. Will American leadership today finally rise to the occasion and save democracy in Asia...
...scoring in the first period seemed to indicate that the Yalies might possess the punch necessary to win. Costa Vaitnos expertly headed in a perfect corner kick for the one Stiles tally, while Jost picked up a garbage goal from in front of the nets for the lone Quincy score...
...knowledge of an exact law in the theoretical sense would be equivalent to an infinite observation. I do not say that such knowledge is impossible to mean; but I do say that it would be absolutely different in kind from any knowledge that we possess at present...