Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beginning with films shot in 1903 by Thomas Edison, the program will study football in relation to the American way of life: its philosophy, the events which have marked its 100-year existence, and its changes as a mirror of our society...
...SURE whether America can be radically changed, and it scares me. I want to save my soul as a subject of the American Empire 1969, but it isn't an easy fight and the outcome is in doubt. "Salvation becomes almost a mundane, inevitable goal when things are so bad, really intolerable," Susan Sontag says in an essay entitled "What's Happening in America (1966)." Salvation-artistic and moral-is what Sontag discusses in a complex yet ballsy way in Styles of Radical Will, a collection of essays written since...
...Trip to Hanoi" illustrates how Vietnam has pushed intellectuals, artists. and students out of their limited enclaves and forced them to wrestle with political concerns. Sontag writes that she shared the archetypal left-leaning American's dilemma over Vietnam: although she is "passionately opposed to the American aggression," she had been unable to incorporate her convictions in her work. Awareness without the ability to act on it. (And that, comrades, is where we live...
Eventually Sontag discovers that the Vietnamese politeness is utterly unlike American social conventions, which hide the inner self. She writes that their sincerity is "a mode of ethical aspiration." Similarly, despite the way Americans are trained to discredit heroism, she realizes that the nobility and bravery of the Vietnamese are as real as they seem...
...moment that I saw the guy go crashing through a window. I knew it was going to be a brawl, and a classic one at that. It was just the way I had always envisioned it. In Athens last summer I had seen American sailors tear apart a clip joint in retaliation for a few hundred drachma in change that they never happened to get back from the bartender. But here, in Ithaca, New York, people were brawling just for the pure joi? de sport...