Word: othellos
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...good man is hard to find, and intolerable to men and gods once he is found. The age of the anti-hero tends to overlook this fascinating half-truth, which is the durable paradox at the core of Oedipus Rex and Othello. But Ken Kesey used it well in his short, cruelly focused first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. McMurphy, laughing con man and indestructible alley fighter, cons his way into an insane asylum to escape the drudgery of a prison farm. His battle is with Big Nurse, the white-starched emasculator who bulls his ward...
...YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (New York City): Othello at Central Park's Delacorte Theater and Midsummer Night's Dream touring the boroughs (both free...
...concert began with Othello, a little-known overture by Dvorak. Othello turns out to be quite a good overture, too, and the orchestra went through it smoothly. The only mishaps were a few unintended clangs probably from a jittery percussionist...
...McLuhan's rules. "Backward countries are cool, and we are hot." Autos are hot. The "blurry, shaggy texture of Kennedy" was a natural for cool TV, which is why "sharp, intense" Nixon lost the debates. Private enterprise is hot; public debt is cool, Iago is cool, but Othello hot. Girls who wear glasses don't get passes-because they...
...poets, musicians and scholars on one side of the record, and on the other, brief readings from his later works by 16 leading Shakespearean actors, including excerpts from two plays now on the boards: Paul Scofield reading Lear's reconciliation with Cordelia and Sir Laurence Olivier delivering Othello's speech to the Senate...