The darker heir to High School Musical, Glee is a musical comedy-drama about a group of high school misfits who find personal redemption – and social isolation – through song.
(Merrill expresses that feeling of filial isolation in a 1960 poem about his strained relationship with his mother, "Scenes of Childhood": "The son and heir! In the dark / It makes me catch my breath / And hear, from upstairs, hers— / That faintest hiss / And slither, as of life / Escaping into space, / Having led its characters / To the abyss").
Was he speaking as an heir to these mythologies, or as a dark manipulator?
The short story may be dressed as a whimsical jaunt, but it carries political bite: an allegory of the dark side of capitalism and consumerism, as experienced by the heir to a throne.
Is this that great adventurer — the famous lord of the seas and delight of women, the heir of rich Corinth — this crying drunkard beating down the dark doorstep?
Does Oliver really want the secure, safe, upper-middle-class life he is heir to, or isn't there something "more" in the dark life that Fagin offers him?
Spain's would-be heirs to Aznar ReprintsThe other deputy, Mariano Rajoy, an efficient but dark horse from Spain's Celtic corner, Galicia, is Mr Aznar's invaluable right-hand minister.
Although his place in history is dark and his name connotes repression, anti-Semitism and other abuses of power, his heirs still flit across the stage of public life in Italy, unabashed about their pedigree and mostly unpunished for it.
In Prideand Prejudice, Jane Austen dramatized the dark shadow cast over thelives of Mrs. Bennet and her daughters by an entail on the heir-malethat governed the Bennet estate.
The coffee at Starbucks, on the other hand, is heir to the handcrafted products of 1960s specialty coffee marketers who roasted their beans very, very dark for deep, rich, complex flavor.
