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...with all the inside information that Author Wilder makes available for him should have no difficulty in deciding who instigated the crime. In this account, Brutus is a minor character. Cassius does not even appear. If they did not know about Brutus, readers might well decide that the real villain must have been Clodia Pulcher, a likely suspect if there ever was one, dissolute, clever, and already mixed up in one attempt on Caesar's life...
...most striking characteristic of Othello' is its structure. Whereas in most tragedies, the hero maintains control until the turning point in the play is reached, here we have the villain in command until the climax. It is proportionately hard to understand". Professor G. L. Kittredge '82 emphasized, this point in the second lecture of his series on the "Five tragedies of Shakspere" last night in Sanders Theatre...
...History seldom offers, in its tragedies, so clear-out a role for the villain of the piece as is now occupied by Mussolini. We westerners dismissed his warlike utterances as mere sabrerattling for mass consumption. We will soon pay for refusing to face the facts." (September...
Bread Crumb and Gunpowder Crumb were hero and villain of a new fairy tale written by Soviet Author Andrei Platonov for Pionerskaya Pravda, which aims to show the Socialist way to children under 14. Author Platonov put his two Crumbs in a hunter's beard, and there got them into arguments. Gunpowder Crumb threatened to blow up not only Bread Crumb, but self, beard and hunter. At the moment of crisis, a sparrow snatched Gunpowder from the hunter's brush and was heroically destroyed when Gunpowder exploded. Bread Crumb, meanwhile, came to his appointed happy end. The hunter...
...weeks ago, President Truman picked out inflation's villain. The villain was the commodity speculator. Harry Truman said that gamblers in grain were making the cost of living their football. Attorney General Tom Clark and Agriculture Secretary Clinton B. Anderson joined in the booing. Speculators, Clark said, were "profiteering in human misery...