Word: prometheus
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...Prometheus Bound. Proud of race and place, Captain Michales is a Prometheus bound who prays to God but worships his native Crete. His unsmiling face is a sword set against the Turk. He can spread two fingers in a wine glass and shatter it; his words are blunt, plain and few. He goes on broody, Homeric, eight-day binges, but "wine could never-bring him down." It is clear, as his horse's hoofs strike sparks from the streets, that he is riding for a more classic fall-the fall caused by hubris, the overweening pride of the Greek...
...Mielziner is a striking thing. Instead of painted scenery, he has used a simple cotton scrim that sets the time at eternity, the place at everywhere. The forestage is filled with what looks like a mighty cubistic boulder on which Joan sits pale and still, like a piteous Prometheus in the midst of her tormentors. The tableau breaks, and the trial, which is the metaphor the action moves in, takes its course. In a matter of moments it is clear that the London fiasco is not to be repeated by Producer Kermit Bloomgarden. For that production Christopher Fry had done...
Most likely candidate as proprietor of the pebble culture was Australopithecus prometheus, a smallish, erect-walking creature whose brain was just big enough to equip him intellectually as a maker of tools. Prometheus was plentiful in the Makapan region, but his remains had never been found with pebble tools...
...York's Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, one of the backers of the search, heard from Dr. Raymond A. Dart of Witwatersrand University. Deep in the same stony layer where Digger Brain had found the tools, Alun R. Hughes and Revill Mason found two teeth of prometheus. Dr. Dart considered the find good evidence that prometheus "was actually coexistent with, and in all probability responsible for, that very primitive stone pebble culture...
Anthropologists define man as "the toolmaking animal." Therefore the Makapan find gives pebble-chipping prometheus a claim to being the most primitive creature that can be called definitely human...