Word: theban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kept Sophocles' characters in their ancient setting but has stressed the psychoanalytic implications of the story and told it in modern language. To The Play Room audience Cocteau's attempt to make the legend significant in modern terms seemed so sincere that his anachronisms, his references to Theban nightclubs, and the sprinkling of slang did not sound forced. Jean Cocteau, once called "the most charming young man in Paris," has always been a good showman. He has frequently set Paris on her ear with his expressionistic ballets. His surrealist film, The Blood of a Poet, produced visceral chills...
...Play. Amphitryon 38, adapted for the Lunts by Samuel Nathaniel Behrman from the French farce of Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux, is approximately the 38th dramatic version of the Theban legend of how all-powerful Zeus (Roman Jupiter) had to assume the mental as well as the physical aspects of Amphitryon before Alcmena would bed him. The Lunts studied the play, which they were quick to see contained one of their favorite situations, for several months before trying it out last June in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Later they took it to Baltimore, Washington and Cleveland, to whose critics the play...
Samples: To leave no stone unturned (500 B.C.). Origins of this typical ancient proverb are shrouded in the past. Perhaps it refers to Greek crab-fishermen, perhaps to a legend of the Battle of Salamis, when a greedy Theban, digging fruitlessly for Persian treasure, was thus slyly advised by Delphi's oracle. To rob Peter to pay Paul (Wyclif, 1380). Still waters run deep (1430). A hair of the dog that bit you (1546). God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb (thought by many to be a Biblical quotation, by a more knowledgeable few the invention of Laurence...
Edward Massey '15, director, can be proud of the results which he has obtained from the corps of actors supplied by the Dramatic Club and the Radcliffe Idler Club. William M. Hunt, 2nd '37, turned in a very creditable performance as Oedipus, the Theban King who suffered divine retribution for the murder of his father and subsequent incest. He was well supported by Jean Goodale, of Radcliffe, who played the part of Jocasta, Queen of Thebes, and mother and wife of Oedipus, and by Arthur Szathmary '37 who took the role of the head priest, Tiresias...
...parents could have answered the Theban Sphinx, for like Dr. Aleš Hrdlička, famed Bohemian-born doctor of medicine and physical anthropologist with the U. S. National Museum, they have rarely seen children walking like little bears. In 1927 and 1928 Dr. Hrdlička wrote three learned papers on the subject of walking-on-all-fours. Only 41 cases could he locate, so he decided it was a rarity, gave it a Greekish name, tetrapodisis...