Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RACHEL, RACHEL. Making his directorial debut in this subdued tale of a smalltown schoolteacher faced with the onset of middle age, Paul Newman extracts a towering performance from his wife, Joanne Woodward...
...took some doing. The general said that he did not like having to fight in Viet Nam and saw no need to use atomic weapons there at present-although he once advocated destroying "every work of man" in North Viet Nam and bombing its citizens "back to the Stone Age" unless Hanoi ended the war. But in his mind an atomic bomb was just another bomb. "We seem to have a phobia about nuclear weapons. I think to most military men that a nuclear weapon is just another weapon in our arsenal," he maintained. "I think there are many occasions...
Those who deny the Southern intelligence have never considered the amazing ability of a Southern town to recognize Outsiders. Student-age people are instantly suspect, especially if they are wearing the standard-issue Civil Rights Worker uniform (blue jeans, t-shirt) and have "hippie communist" hair (i.e., long enough so the scalp doesn't show). When one of these creatures appears in town, locals gather quickly. If he speaks in strange and foreign tongues, he becomes the target of a public drive to oust him. And if he commits the ultimate heresy of talking to or LIVIN' WITH NIGGERS...
...skillful settings. What he lacks is the final power to shake and shock the reader by suddenly opening a pit of darkness beneath him, or by fleetingly convincing him that things like werewolves do exist. Ely's style is too smoothly controlled for that, and perhaps the age is too secular...
...Note: In the Victorian age, women used to take small doses of arsenic to create an alabaster complexion...