Word: theban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancient classics that are being turned into briskly readable, contemporary English by such able writers as Robert Graves (The Golden Ass of Apuleius. Lucan's Pharsalia), Rolfe Humphries (Ovid's Metamorphoses), Moses Hadas (An Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus), Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald (Sophocles' Theban plays), Stanley Alexander Handford (Caesar's Gallic Wars...
...much of Giraudoux's imaginative wit and irony, but lacks dynamism and the smoothness of a thoroughly rehearsed production. Alkmena is anemic, Amphitryon should be more possessive. Instead of vigorous verbal fencing between Jupiter and Alkmena, we hear but gentle gibes. Muffed lines, awkwardly handled props, clownish warriors, nonexistent Theban mobs, and a series of confused sounds purporting to be "cosmic music" mar the plays buoyancy...
Orff: Antigonae, Scenes 4 & 5 (Christl Goltz, Hermann Uhde, Vienna Symphony and State Opera Chorus conducted by Heinrich Hollreiser; Columbia). The Sophocles tragedy of the Theban princess doomed by her father, set in a markedly individual style by Germany's popular Composer Carl Orff. Mysterious sounds, fearlessly repeated notes, stark accompaniments, apocalyptic thunderings, all add up to a powerful aural drama. Soprano Goltz tops everything with her soprano...
...accord with your whims--immediate and future--Is the crux of the perfect line." Or so said "Vanity Fair," a magazine which was avid reading material for the Class of '26. Other literati were getting free seats to "Oedipus Rex" at the Opera House by being part of a Theban mob which ran up and down the theatre during one scene. "I think that Harvard students make a very creditable mob..." the show's director said...