Word: tyrants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friend from the underground days, who now records the despot's lying in state. Frank's secret hobby is building up a huge collection of candid but forbidden photographs: "unsuitable pictures taken from unsuitable angles, the averted face of the world in which [the tyrant] moved, a parade of folly, a riot of vanity, a debauch of cowardice-s a stark naked general dancing the csúrdú among the cakes on a banquet table, a collective orgy of rural bosses...
...slightest glimmer of hope left, Macbeth still insists on summoning up his transcendent courage to meet his death with honor. Fine enough, but Houseman carries the idea too far, and the result elicits smiles. Shakespeare specified that Macduff was to kill Macbeth off stage and then enter with the tyrant's head. Instead, we see the entire duel. Macbeth even picks Macduff up and swings him on his shoulders. Macduff while up there pulls out a dagger and stabs Macbeth in the back. But Macbeth is too strong to go down, and several soldiers rush in to pile stabbing upon...
Democratic Tyrant. With his sitters, La Tour was the most democratic of tyrants. Portraits of the King's daughters were never finished-in order to punish them for failing to keep appointments. La Tour once threatened to walk out of his studio when the King tried to watch him sketching la Pompadour. "My talent," he proudly maintained, "belongs to me." Nowhere was it better displayed than in his self-portraits, in which the illusion of reality is so strong, marveled one 18th century critic, that "it seems as though nature had painted itself." One of the three that survive...
...Creon of Sophocles is a pigheaded, authoritarian tyrant who is absolutely confident of his own infallibility. The Creon of Anouilh-Carnovsky is quite different. We even learn that in his youth "he loved music, bought rare manuscripts, was a kind of art patron." But now he has become the sort of person against whom Archibald MacLeish has just warned us: "Man in the electronic age is not a votary of the arts--he has more serious business. He sees himself, whatever his economic system, as a social and scientific animal, the great unraveler of the universe, its potential master...
...Second World War," Eban said. "There is a flagrant breach of international morality and human decency in this comparison. Our nation never compromised with Hitler Germany. It never signed a pact with it, as did the U.S.S.R. in 1939. To associate the name of Israel with the accursed tyrant who engulfed the Jewish people in a tidal wave of slaughter is to violate every canon of elementary taste and fundamental truth." While Eban was speaking, Kosygin got up from his seat and walked out of the Assembly. He had a luncheon engagement, he explained...