Word: tormenting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aeschylus had fought at Salamis, as be had at Marathon where his brother was killed, and he knew war. While the play is intrinsically undramatic, it is a remarkable achievement, humanly speaking, in that a victor aches with the torment of the defeated, recounts the terrible battle deaths of the slain, shows their widows and mothers keening in desolate, inconsolable grief. It is a kind of reverse Henry V, as if Shakespeare had set his play in France after the Battle of Agincourt, put his words in the mouths of the tiny remnant of once-proud French survivors, and evoked...
...gives psychotherapists an absolute right not to disclose, regardless of their patients' wishes. Moreover, Lifschutz argued, the patient cannot make an informed waiver of his rights-he may not know what his doctors will say about him. Worse still, said Lifschutz, a psychiatrist's testimony might well torment his patient and destroy the treatment process...
...seven-year exile in France and closes with his murder at the hands of the King's soldiers. It is the study of a man who has the choice of deciding his own fate, or submitting himself to the will of the inevitable, the will of his God. His torment lies in the fact that either choice will result in the same outcome-a martyr's death. Becket finds such a death to be the ultimate path to his long-held desires for power and glory; humble submission to the will of God demands the same sacrifice. Salvation or damnation...
...ELIOT'S highly stylized and rigidly structured form of drama seems at first a curious medium in which to express the madness and torment of Becket's struggle with his fate. What the audience sees is not so much the performance of a play, as the enactment of a ritual. The characters speeches are set in poetry: there is the barest outline of a plot. It is up to the director and the actors themselves to endow this ritual with all the intensity and the passion of the themes it seeks to express. Director David Wheeler and the Theatre Company...
Halting a trend toward more participation in post-season torment play, the Ivy League presidents decided today not to allow any Ivy basketball teams to accept a bid to the National Invitational Tournament...