Word of the Day
jeremiad (n)
A long lament or complaint, or an angry harangue, derived from the name of the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah.
"...virtually every one of Albee's plays can be read as an American jeremiad, which Sacvan Bercovitch has called 'a nationwide ritual of progress [that] contributed to the success of the republic.'"
--Lincoln Konkle, "Good, Better, Best, Bested: The Failure of American Typology in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Woolf is one of my favorite plays. I even wrote a paper on it in college. Or a few papers, if I recall. It can be analyzed from several angles: political, Freudian, rhetorical, dramatic, etc. George and Martha...hmmm.
"I said I was impressed. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?"
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