Word: zeus
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...finer plays. While Barbara Undershaft (Jane Alexander), who does the Christian God's goodly work among the poor, owns the play's title, it is her munitions tycoon of a father, Andrew (Lee Richardson), wielding the twin thunderbolts of "money and gunpowder," who is the capitalistic Zeus. Shaw himself had a Caesar complex. He was fascinated by absolute power and that explained his deplorable temporary enthusiasms for Hitler and Stalin. But his Undershaft is of another breed. This merchant of death is also an apostle of life...
...Welles-Houseman partnership ended badly, with Welles hurling blazing Sterno heaters at Producer Houseman and howling anathemas at him in that voice of Zeus...
...couch, in the behavior of small boys who play with dolls and walk around with their stomachs thrust forward in imitation of their pregnant mothers and in primitive rites and ancient myths. According to these myths, presumably conceived by males, Adam delivered Eve from his rib cage, Zeus gave birth to Athena out of his head, and when Semele was burned to death, Zeus seized Dionysus from her womb and sewed him up in his thigh until the infant had developed...
...make them drunk with pride so that they lost control of themselves." But in the end that was just what did happen. The Atlanteans "lost their comeliness, through being unable to bear the burden of their possessions, and became ugly to look upon, in the eyes of him [Zeus] who has the gift of sight . . . filled as they were with lawless ambition and power." Therefore Zeus destroyed them. As Professor Marinates continues to unearth evidence from his dig on Santorini, Plato's story of Atlantis begins to read more and more like actual history...
...vision, of her father. Her story starts with the local creation-story of her childhood village of Gais, a story of an old woman and a goat, the only survivors of a great flood. But the myth she emphasizes most, the myth of the god with two wives, of Zeus with Hera and Dione, is perhaps the one she wonders most about--partially because her father spent two years "pent up" with two women who loved him only a little more than they hated each other...