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Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill, seems, after 38 years, as familiar as inherited folklore. It is the mid-19th century New England saga of the flinty, greedy. God-bedeviled, lust-maddened Cabot clan and its internecine struggle over the family farm. To possess it. the sons wish their father dead, brother plots against brother, a young woman marries a fanatical old man, seduces his son to obtain an heir, and murders the infant to repossess the son's love. George C. Scott plays the fire-breathing old father Ephraim with monomaniacal force. As the woman...
...years in prison last month for selling secrets to the Russians, the House of Commons has buzzed with rumors that the case might involve the government in the biggest scandal since Burgess and MacLean eloped to Russia in 1951. Last week the most sensational version of the Vassall saga to date was unfolded in the House of Commons by the very man whom the Opposition had accused of trying to whitewash the whole affair: Prime Minister Harold Macmillan...
...goes one version of the story. Captain William Bligh of H.M.S. Bounty refused to give a drink of water to a dying man and his crew staged a mutiny. The incident inspired a trilogy of bestselling novels (1932-34) by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, and a supercolossal saga of the sea (1935) starring Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian and Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh. In 1959, figuring that the public was ready to stretch its sea legs again, M-G-M decided to refloat The Bounty. So the wind blew and the fish flew, and by the time...
...From now on, anything we don't like won't happen." In response, aggressive Bill Zeckendorf, who had been keeping in fighting trim by agilely staying one step ahead of his creditors, earnestly promised to indulge in "less shooting from the hip." Longtime students of the Zeckendorf saga wondered just how long Bill Zeckendorf could stay away from grandiose real estate projects...
...best-known work, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), the bitter saga of the Okies, was powerful as a tract but limited as fiction, scarcely able to survive its time and place. Even in less dated novels. Steinbeck's characters are not, as Edmund Wilson once wrote, "really quite human beings: they are cunning little living dolls that amuse us as we might be amused by pet guinea pigs, squirrels or rabbits...