Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dunster House Drama Workshop has anticipated my feeling (more precisely, my lack of feeling) about Caligula; they quote in their program an excerpt from Camus' preface to the play, "...I look in vain for philosophy in these four acts." I look in vain for drama. Camus wrote Caligula in 1938, when he was twenty-five years old; and what interested him were the implications of dictatorship. It is to his eternal credit that he gave his villain all the best lines, all the most telling arguments. Desire for absolute power may be a form of madness, but to turn Caligula...
...group that waited in vain for Rexroth was a strange combination of disgruntled newsmen, baggage porters, little boys waiting for their mothers, and a few scattered students who vaguely fulfilled the epithet of beatnik...
...days of routine processing, then are sluiced on to jobs in booming, labor-short West German indus try. Although East German leaders have long expressed alarm at the continuing outflow of citizens, and particularly at the flight of the young and the skilled, they have cast about in vain for means of stopping...
...diversions and the Janizary music of loud-voiced enterprises to keep lonely thoughts away." Yet all the noise is in vain: "No Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest, nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape, neither by diversion nor by noise, neither at work nor at play, neither...
...American Heritage (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Raymond Massey again plays Abraham Lincoln, in "Not in Vain," a fictional investigation of the events culmi nating at Gettysburg...