Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last period of Shakespeare's development yielded four great plays--Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest--none of which, unfortunately, often reaches the stage. These are not four separate plays; they really constitute a monumental tetralogy, in which respect, among others, they correspond to Beethoven's late quartets, Op. 130-133. Each of the two men filled his four works with many thematic and other interrelations, and each turned from the probable to the possible and even the implausible...
...these notes are many examples of his best criticism, always aiming for a logical and constructive interpretation rather than imagining a possible though unlikely one. For instance, Prospero's gift in The Tempest of "a third of mine own life,/Or that for which I live," he writes, "Life consists of past, present, and future. All that the future means to Prospero--all that henceforth he lives for--is his daughter. Therefore she is his future, a third of his own life...
...Stumpy Jockey Steve Brooks, 36, who has been going around in winning track circles for almost 20 years, rode to greater glory at Florida's Gulfstream Park. Slashing away with his skillful whip, Steve got a two-year-old bay filly named Tempest Tossed to stay in front of her field for three furlongs, and became the seventh jockey in U.S. racing history to ride 3,000 winners...
...tempest churned up by the sandalwood fans in Saigon has rustled palm fronds and stirred feminine emotions across the land. Last week all Saigon was astir with the story of Co Ha, an 18-year-old maiden of Going Ving, a thatched-hut village 40 miles southwest of the capital...
During Queen Elizabeth II's visit to the U.S., the Saturday Evening Post stirred a tempest in British teacups with an article titled: "Does England Really Need a Queen?" Its author: brilliant, acidulous...