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...Bacchae. Euripides' classic drama, easy to follow even if you don't know Greek. The Bacchae might be summed up as the collected greatest hits of Greek drama--it's got cavorting nymphs, a blind seer, and the lecherous Dionysus to boot. Bring pillows and blankets to the Open Door Theatre, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7 at Pinebank Park. Tickets $3; call 440-8488 for more info...
...company of such reporters as Cronkite, Reasoner and Chancellor is unforgivable. For these are men who are now the only really eloquent voices in that otherwise insipid area known as "broadcast journalism." They have the touch of a poet in their prose, the sagacity of a seer in their assessments. To them, the world we live in is something more than merely a matter of headlines...
...tone is that of the seer scorned; yet he can hardly claim to be the prophet ignored. For 30 years he has been a cinder in the public eye: novelist, Broadway playwright, television dramatist, screenwriter, essayist, congressional candidate, actor, troubador to the Kennedy Camelot, talk-show regular, political debater and full-time nag. Millions who have never read him recognize his electronic presence: elegance bordering on narcissism, feline languor, throaty self-assurance...
...puffed up; I looked like a Frankenstein monster," complained Astrologer-Author Sybil Leek, recalling her visit to South Carolina last November. Scheduled to address a convention of auto executives, Sybil had stopped by the Hilton Head Inn pool beforehand "for a few deep breaths of good air." The seer failed to see a stream of gas from a rusty chemical cylinder, however, and instead of air, inhaled some escaping chlorine. The result, says Astrologer Leek, was a case of chemical pneumonia, a four-day hospital stay and two months of severe headaches. Forgoing mystical incantations, the astrologer last week resorted...
...ruling classes. More specifically, although swayed by commoners and clergy, it was ruled by one monarch, 25 dukes, one marquess, 81 earls, twelve viscounts and 63 barons. In the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution brought with it the need for a new cultural catechism, and by 1843 Historian-Seer Thomas Carlyle was prophesying the emergence of new leaders: from an "Industrial Aristocracy as yet only half-alive, spellbound amid moneybags and ledgers," would arise noble captains of industry to lead Britain's work-hosts in the fight "against Chaos, Necessity and the Devils...