Word: cassandras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interests−and in such a psychological state−that it is hard to speak of an effective reduction of state intervention without being misunderstood. That is why I, who have no ties, can speak of it. It does not matter that my voice is that of an unheeded Cassandra. If I were silent, I should fail in my duty...
...Troy? The men dead in the streets, the flesh of hips forced up by the hard cobbles? Law died with them. . . The image of Troy's order lies decaying in over twenty-thousand dead men's eyes." Sometimes, Mr. Alfred injects humor which heightens the tone of the tragedy; Cassandra says, "Lift that thing off him." "He's naked ma'am." "Is that what you call Greek reason." His transitions from heroic phrasing to the coloquial are smooth and consistent for the most part...
Individual performances were good. Cassandra played by Elizabeth Richards, and Clytemnestra, by Polly Thayer were especially well drawn I thought. Neither laid too much stress on the poetry, as Aegisthus did, or on emotional for de force as Agamemnen tended to do. On the whole, everyone in the cast showed a good on and understanding of their parts...
...play will be two undergraduates P. Michael Mabry '53 and Donald O. Stewart '53, two teaching fellows, Robert F. Rockman and Joseph D. Everingham, as well as several graduates Elizabeth Richards '53 plays Cassandra...
...said of Sir Stafford: "His favorite drink is water; his favorite food, a scraped carrot. While in politics he is left of the left, in matters of right and wrong he is inclined to be right . . . He is gifted with a winning voice which can make the warnings of Cassandra sound like the love note of Apollo...