Word: trojan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind. The murder and desire for revenge that divides the austere Mannon family into two camps is also the conflict between Puritanical repression and the open sensuality of the foreigner. Except for details of place and time, O'Neill has not had to change Aeschylus' story at all: the Trojan War has become the Civil War, and Agemmemnon is now the victorious General Ezra Mannon...
...Andrei Vishinsky faced them. A proposal had been made by Argentina to submit the veto question to the "Little Assembly" for examination. Vishinsky fulminated against it, exploded with similes: ". . . They are repeating day after day 'the veto must be destroyed'; like Cato of old; [like the] Trojan horse; [like a] Walpurgis Night...
...shows had an impressive line-up of scripters: Euripides, Ibsen, Shaw, Christopher Marlowe, Rostand. They ran from a carefree one hour, one minute (Shaw's Man of Destiny") to an odd one hour, 27 minutes (Euripides' Trojan Women). Producers were from the top BBCrust. The casts were sparked with big British theatrical names...
...peasants of Gagliano crowded around the exile with friendly curiosity, helped him find lodgings, shook their heads sympathetically. They pitied him for being out of civilized circulation; they and their forebears had lived thus for untold centuries-since the legendary days when Prince Aeneas and his Trojan followers founded the Roman race. "We're not Christians," the peasants gravely told Painter Levi; "Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli"-the point at which the highway leaves the blue Gulf of Taranto and loses itself in Lucania's arid wastes...
...equalitarian doctrines, included: Bernard Baruch, close collaborator of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt; General George C. Marshall, former chief of staff; Henry A. Wallace, former Vice President and vicious fascist-baiter; General Alexander A. Vandegrift, former commander of the notorious Marine Corps; Charles A. Beard, democratic philosopher; Ezequiel Padilla, Trojan horse of the Mexican Anschluss...