Word: promethean
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This is John Osborne's Martin Luther, modern, distinctly dramatic, and very much the playwright's own speculative creation, though modeled on historical fact. After a compelling evening with this Luther, incandescently acted by Albert Finney, one knows that one has seen a hugely tormented Promethean rebel. It is rather less certain that one has been in the presence of a towering Christian and the prime mover and shaper of the Reformation...
...first of these notions. As to the second, the Diary will not sell sex, since the subject is presented at its worst-neither for play, passion nor procreation, but as a something-or-other that promotes the spiritual development of a prig. It is woeful stuff-the sort of Promethean flimflam that steams up from a painfully protracted puberty. One other question lingers in the mind: How was the author of this stupefyingly pretentious piffle ever mistaken for a young man of genius by London's most eminent critics...
...both Learned Hand and the Mercury Astronauts was the Promethean spirit that motivated the free world as it followed its imagination and aspirations beyond the cold war to faraway goals...
...Canaveral. At the floodlit launching pad, a gangling service structure, standing like a jeweled skyscraper, nestled against the U.S. Army's Jupiter-C rocket. A homely creature it was, its streamlined shell topped with a bucketlike piece and a long, thin, cylindrical nose. This was the Explorer, the Promethean gift that the U.S. aimed to fling against the invisible doors of space...
...Esoteric discussions of Tokyo v. Osaka folkways lead imperceptibly to the dramatic outer and inner conflict of a Japan in transition. The core of meaning, which the Westerner will perhaps find hard to penetrate, is the concept of a heroism that never indulges in triumphs of the will and Promethean wrestlings with destiny, but bends to the winds of fate like a reed and, never breaking, wins the subtler triumph of endurance...