Word: oedipus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paine '69 The Glee Club and Orchestra "Symphony in C-Major" Mozart The Orchestra "Two Choruses," from "Orpheus" Gluck The Glee Club and Orchestra "Danse des Bouffons," from "The snow Maiden" Rimsky-Korsakov The Orchestra "Ecco Iam Noctes" G. W. Chadwick The Glee Club and Orchestra Prelude to "Oedipus Tyrannis" J. K. Paine '69 The Orchestra "Hallelujah Amen," from "Judas Maccabus" G. F. Handel The Glee Club and Orchestra
Greater than life, the Greeks said. So those who understood created "Seven against Thebes," "The Frogs," "Oedipus Tyrannus." But lesser men followed, and they could not understand. The race of blue-eyed, fair-haired men discovered that the secret of greatness is a mystery not to be taught, rarely to be learned. The Romans came, conquered, and the lamp was extinguished...
...great trilogy, Aeschylus made Prometheus, the fire-bringer, pay a fearful price for defying Zeus. On seeing Sophocles' Oedipus Rex & Oedipus Tyrannus good Athenian audiences were properly shocked at the King's insensate stubbornness in attempting to influence economic conditions. The mythical hubris of the Trojans before their city was sacked was only matched by the historical hubris of the Athenians themselves just before their defeat in the Peloponnesian...
...wanton violence of the ancient tragic heroes but a smug arrogance. . . . His campaign promises ran to that excess which above all things offended the Greek temperament, which seemed above all things to invite the correcting interposition of Nemesis. . . . Compare him. for example, with Oedipus. Oedipus, like Hoover, thought very well of himself. We first see him when his country is suffering from a severe and unexpected depression. . . . He has appointed Kreon as a fact-finding commission. Kreon's subsequent experiences are reminiscent of Mr. Wickersham. . . . But it must be admitted that Oedipus behaves better than his modern analogue; he does...
When Orin comes home a struggle between the two Mannon women waxes bitter. Orin is not a little attached to his mother, Oedipus-wise. He never liked his father. But when Lavinia makes him track down their mother's rendezvous with Brant on his ship, Orin's eyes open. He shoots his mother's lover. His mother returns home, commits suicide. That accounts for Parts I and II, "Homecoming" and "The Haunted...