Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Antithesis of Brecht. In this "farce to make you sad," Ghelderode systematically and satirically derides all the causists who ever hoped to remold the world. There is Pantagleize's Negro servant Bamboola, a naive firebrand who believes that overnight "the Negroes will be made white." There is Blank, a poet who dabbles in politics and diddles in literature. There is Innocenti, a lawyer passing as a waiter and living out the logical absurdity of a politically engaged nihilist. Pantagleize is oblivious to all except Rachel Silberchatz, a Jewish girl as splinteringly comic in her undeviating revolutionary fanaticism as Pantagleize...
...military mission to bring the beauteous and adulterous Helen back from Troy. An oracle has told King Agamemnon that if he sacrifices the life of his daughter Iphigenia the wind will rise and Greek arms will ravage Troy. Agamemnon, played with a mixture of bluff aplomb and sad perplexity by Mitchell Ryan, is a politician's politician who rules more by public opinion than private conscience. He fears the mob and decides to do the oracle's bidding...
...story is much too sad to be told, For practically everything leaves me totally cold; The only exception I know is the case When I'm out on a quiet spree Fighting vainly the old ennui, And I suddenly turn and see, your fabulous face...
...University who fell in the long Civil War. Ransom and his companion wandered from one part of the building to another, and stayed their steps at several impressive points; but they lingered longest in the presence of the white, ranged tablets, each of which, in its proud, sad clearness, is inscribed with the name of a student soldier...
...Thank you God, thank you God!" shrieked Lockman's fiancee after hearing the relatively light sentence. Lockman, fully prepared to get the five-year maximum, shouted: "I'm not crying because I'm sad. I'm crying because I'm happy!" After the automatic review of the case at Sixth Army headquarters, Lockman's attorneys plan appeals...