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...their pleated rust-brown gowns with cowled headdress, the women often resemble the caryatids on the portico of the Acropolis' Erechtheum. The modern Greek rendering of the play has a venomous and vibrant intimacy that the English translation, transmitted at the City Center on transistor earphones, fails to reflect. In a cast that achieves a triumph of ensemble playing, Clytemnestra is coolly reptilian, and Aegisthus is a strutting upstart of self-aggrandizement who yet meets his implacable doom with dignity...
Moore described Tropic as the "adventures of an American in Paris," and compared Miller's anarchic individualism with that of Whitman, Emerson, or Thoreau. "Its seamier passages reflect the life of real people," he told Judge Goldberg: "If this book is obscene, then life is obscene...
...there are diplomas that we riot about diplomas; perhaps it is because there is commencement that things that matter are deferred. We learn, we mark with pompous festival the end of learning, and then we do. And both the character of our learning and the character of our careers reflect our acceptance of this categorization of which diplomas and commencement are our symbol...
...assures him that she is in love with her fiancé. Has Don Juan never been in love? "People who can love" he replies, with regret he had not realized he felt. "can be counted on one hand, and their suffering is without end. They are mirrors which reflect God's light upon us other wretches, groping in the dark." She looks at him as if he were an exotic tidbit-say, a sugar-coated bedbug...
...cannot well afford to blanket all of its competitors' new models with Chrysler equivalents. And except for its intermediate gamble, Chrysler was playing its cards cautiously. Like almost all the 1962s-some of which have finally been exposed to public view (see cuts)-the new Chrysler cars reflect a trend toward smoother lines. For the first time since 1957, the Imperial and Chrysler models have lost their once-lofty fins. The new Imperials have a sharp, straight rear fender line, the Chryslers a more rakish one that blends into a tapered rear deck. Chrysler's two handsome compacts...