Word: sophoclean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less precarious times, the role she is given in That Certain Woman might conceivably have evoked renewed protest from her, not that it lacks scope for her remarkable dramatic range, but because it heaps tragedy upon her with Sophoclean relentlessness, and because its wearying, buskined tread cannot pretend to vie with her more smartly-stepping 1937 successes, Marked Woman and Kid Galahad...
...system, was summarily tossed off as in ill-mannered diletante. But when scholars of a most advanced and complex science, after impaling human specimens for their study, induce, (it's largely a matter of induction, the scientific approach, no less), their findings cannot be gainsaid. The die is cast, Sophoclean fate has decreed, and the New England tetrology are distinct types, like...