Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aeschylus and Euripides. Sophocles made changes in the myth which lift the plot from the level of a common intrigue to a study of the highest psychological and ethical interest. He intensified the loneliness of the here by making Lemnos a deserted island, where Philoctetes lived in hardship, a prey alike to paroxysms of intense physical pain from the noisome wound in his foot and to a growing bitterness and hatred against those who had betrayed him. But the supreme stroke of genius was the introduction of the character of Neoptolemus, the youthful son of Achilles. Neoptolemus comes with Odysseus...
...what is more to the point, the League has fallen a prey to the prevalent weakness for "significant figures" and catch-words at the very time when the need for clear thinking is greatest. "Technocracy," which has furnished a source of news to every periodical in the nation, but which has finally exploded in a cloud of misunderstanding and wasted breath, is merely a more extreme example of this predilection for grandstand play. It cannot be maintained that all the exponents of startling new theories are merely seeking remuneration; many are admittedly altruistic. But a cause which, like that...
...replied that it was grower-owned and controlled, borrowing money from the Farm Board only as it would from a bank. Last week Southland President Sidney Goldberg Simmons told the entire trade that, "like a giant octopus whose tentacles envelop and crush the object of its prey, the N. P. M. A. is slowly but surely undermining the foundation of a great industry. . . . Our vigilance has been too keen to render us a martyr to the cause ... if the rights are taken from the people, then we can expect no lesser fate than India with its strife and turmoil...
...need for an American historian who understands the spirit of the country is defined by Bernard Fay in the current Scribners. He points out that "America. . .prey to a tremendous upheaval and laboring under the shock of events which make inoperative an exact sense of her mission and her national aims, needs a first rate instruction in history at once." Other countries have various forces which contribute to national unity, such as the language in France and the traditions of literature and art in Germany; but America lacks these. History has taken that position in this country, according to Professor...
...choruses, whimsical in patter-songs, and sentimental in arias. They can shake the deck of the good ship "Pinafore," snapping their fingers at a foeman's taunts, along with their sisters and their cousins and their aunts. Or, transformed into Pirates, they can sally forth to seek their prey and help themselves in a royal way. But as Gondolieri, whose life is "loving and laughing and quipping and quaffing," they miss the right note of delicate gayety. They sing "Buon' giorno, signorine!" like the police in "The Birates" who found the wisest thing, tarantara, tarantara! was to slap their chests...