Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HAMLET. Some actors merely occupy space; Nicol Williamson rules the stage. His nasal voice has the sting of an adder; his furrowed brow is a topography of inconsolable anguish. His Hamlet is a seismogram of a soul in shock. Here is a Hamlet of spleen and sorrow, of fire and ice, of bantering sensuality, withering sarcasm and soaring intelligence. He cuts through the music of the Shakespearean line to the marrow of its meaning. He spares the perfidious king who killed his father no contempt, but he saves his rage for the unfeeling gods who, in all true tragedy, make...
Story Outline: We start off with two families, both very different in outlook. Jeanine's family is well established in Boston. Her mother is the usual enlightened square. Her father is a professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He has sold his soul to the Pentagon but has brainwashed himself into believing he still serves the community, his university, and the nation. He has no clue that he is, in fact, an absolute fink...
...love but believed in cruelty." The War razed this fetid cathedral only to leave a desolate stone quarry. The post-war legacy of prostration, humiliation, and shattered faces demanded new artistic speech. Old men morosely questioned the value of their life's work. Young men felt helpless in the soul's prison of Europe. They had to free themselves from the Heldenlebens of the voluptuous past...
...derisive laughter of the soul...
...garden of the soul is laid waste...