Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Where and why was the world's most famous smile replaced by a tragic clown? See ART, Final Masquerade...
...from his sec-ond-to-second awareness of death. That is why the widow is murdered by the puritanical villagers, and why the apparatus that operates the lignite mine crashes in total disaster. Such is, says Kazantzakis, the destiny of man and all his works. This is the Greek tragic sense of life, and from it springs Zorba's credo: to live in, for and by each moment as if it were the first and the last. With this musical, one soon wishes each moment was the last...
...signs of a small work: brief scenes that allow little sustained action, a lean plot, and a theme that's nothing to write home about. It is more a character study than a play--the story of two teen-age boys and a girl who escape death during the tragic siege of Leningrad only to become failures as adults...
Eugene O'Neill will probably be remembered as one of the most flawed major playwrights in history. Aiming for greatness, he often achieved only length. When he tries to make his characters Greek-tragic, they appear just plain accident-prone. The notoriously awkward prose of The Iceman Cometh inspired Mary McCarthy to remark: "You cannot write a Platonic dialogue in the style of Casey...
...Cristo, the play which for over a quarter of a century was to stunt his growth as a performer while it made him a rich man. In recovering from the aftereffects of Eugene's birth, his mother, who had hoped for a daughter, became addicted to morphine-a tragic accident for which his older brother Jamie held Eugene half responsible...