Word: inquisitor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dinner at Eddie's inevitably begins with the sound of a cork popping from a bottle of Asti Spumante. "We call it lemonade," he remarks with a grin. As he pours the spirits so Bernays, begins his outpouring of questions. He plays at once the inquisitor and the humorist, drawing people out of their shells of self-consciousness to see what they are made of Subtly, he demands the intimacy of everyone whom he encounters. The topic of discussion turns to Harvard. "The university," lectures Bernays, "is suffering from a cultural time lag of about four hundred years, since...
...second occurs at the close of the first act. An old man appears to Attila in a dream, barring the Hun's way to Rome. "You are appointed as scourge only against mankind," he tells him, in tones that forecast the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlos. "This is the territory of the gods." When Attila encounters the man-historically, Pope Leo I-in the flesh, he hears the same words, set to the same melody, which Verdi has also used in that scene to raise the curtain on Attila's uneasy slumber. The act ends with a majestic...
Fallaci has shown strengths as the grand inquisitor of such disparate leaders as Henry Kissinger and the Ayatullah Khomeini. Here she assumes her customary tone of moral outrage, but the hero, a deceased Greek revolutionary, is as unpromising in death as he was thwarted in life. The owlish collector of excesses is soon faced with an embarrassment of riches-and sometimes just with an embarrassment. For connoisseurs of melodrama there is the first meeting of narrator and martyr: "You were to have many faces, many names ... you were a Vietcong girl... You told me about a god with a yellow...