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...great poetry close to litany, concentrating on Becket's temptation to martyrdom and using his murder for savage satire on the hypocritical rationalizations of tyrants. Anouilh's Becket attempts-without much psychological or historical depth-to show the love-hate relationship between the King and the servant-friend who turns against him in order to serve the church. Fry sought to concentrate more on Henry than on Becket and to illuminate the interplay of law-civil, canon, moral, divine. Says Fry: "Henry was essentially religious, also blasphemous, also superstitious, devoted to law yet also in himself anarchical." Having...
...Alan Paton's Too Late the Phalarope, for example, the hero marries a Negro servant girl and is self-destroyed by this transgression. "Not murder, not lust, but the mingling of the blood is seen as his greatest prostration," she commented...
...comparison, Les Fourberies de Scapin (roughly, "Scapin's Knavery") is a farcical hellraiser, with its resourceful scamp of a hero-the traditionally pert and clever servant-engineering a whole repertory of deceptions with a full battery of slapstick. Based on a famous Roman play, Terence's Phormio, Les Fourberies is served up in the famous Italian style of the commedia dell' arte. For their sons' sake, Scapin hoodwinks two miserly fathers-one of whom, as the price of Scapin's saving his life, has offered him a coat "after I've worn...
President Kennedy's statement to the effect that the size of the job done by a civil servant will be more important than the size of his staff, budget and office is a direct threat to all loyal bureaucrats. Arise one and all and prevent this wanton attempt to repeal Parkinson...
...around him, his palette was somber; color was less important to him than the play of light and shadow and the arrangement of forms. His paintings rarely told a story, and whatever action there might be seemed almost always suspended. Yet his tipplers, his cooks, his peasant boys and servant girls were treated with a quiet dignity that was almost an act of love...