Word: vivisectionism
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It is a patient who thinks he is Shakespeare (Geoffrey Kerr), leader of the Little Theatre movement within the walls, who starts the eminent theatricians on their collaboration. Pirandello, the metaphysician jumps at the notion. If these people think they are respectively Eve, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Menelaus, Marc Antony...
In the review of German 4 recently published in the CRIMSON, the following occurs: "The second half-year is little more than a vivisection of the greatest masterpieces of German literature, the principle of classroom translation is conscientiously followed with the result that Goethe is dragged down to the stifling...
I hate to see a good doctor concern himself too much with symptoms and forget the disease, and it is just this that many are doing and publicly. The dining hall system is part of an experiment in unity, involving, to be sure, vivisection. The particular dog is not expected...
*Harvey made his discovery, the first in modern physiology, by vivisection which "has always been my delight." He was a hardbitten, "small and choleric" man, physician to both Kings James I and Charles I of England. Of Francis Lord Bacon, philosopher and statesman, who was his patient, he once sneered...
Significant is the O'Neill treatment of the theme: simple, straightforward. Spectators who came expecting asides, theatrical tricks such as those employed in Strange Interlude were disappointed. Spectators who hoped to see an elaborate job of mental vivisection, such as Playwright O'Neill displayed in Strange Interlude, were...