Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remind one of Maxwell Anderson scaling his molehills of dramatic verse. An intermittent sidebar monologue features an innocuous-looking Manson-family girl casually relating the horrors of the Sharon Tate murders with a lubriciously contented purr. Together with the repeated cue name of My Lai and references to the slaughter of innocents, of whom Iphigenia is the first, Rabe's intent is clear to the point of didactic overkill-to make the curse and crimes of the House of Atreus appear to be the inevitable pattern of all human behavior...
...your story "Slaughter on Seventh Avenue" [March 12] you say "many women are still shying away from dresses and skirts of any sort, and playing it safe fashionwise by choosing pantsuits...
...later: "I married a handsome face, and did you ever try to live just with a handsome face?" She tried for 18 years, during which she and her family withstood more than a troubled marriage. In 1927, revolutionary Chinese troops invaded Nanking in an orgy of looting and the slaughter of foreigners. A Chinese peasant woman Pearl had befriended offered her and her two children a hiding place in her own small hut. Said Pearl later: "I too have had that strange and terrible experience of facing death because of my color. The only reason that I was not killed...
...weak a word for Jack's foils. With the force of a Miltonic devil, he strides to his inherited seat in the House of Lords. At a fox hunt Jack incenses the party with a bellow for a hangman's society and leads them on to the slaughter with "Dem Bones" -- the first instance where the vaudevillian flavor leaves a sour after-taste (that is made still less delectable by a tasteless little shot of the fox, smugly relieving himself on a tree trunk. Is this Jack pissing in the face of society...
...then, in two terrible weeks, the terrorism broke out again more savagely than ever. Once again Northern Ireland seemed to be drifting toward civil war, its population helplessly caught between two bands of extremists who practiced slaughter in the name of their religion...