Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trend toward revivals, The Front Page is reopening this fall and will be joined by Harvey (James Stewart) and Our Town (Henry Fonda). An all-American series at Lincoln Center's repertory theater includes The Time of Your Life, Camino Real, Beggar on Horseback, plus Sam Shepard's new play, Operation Sidewinder, a wild satire of the contemporary U.S. scene, featuring an Air Force computer in the form of a sidewinder rattlesnake. Comedy is in short supply, but Mike Nichols is directing The Memorandum, a French farce about a determined bachelor and the girl who upsets his ordered...
...does not. The straight middle-class American breadwinner, secure and affluent beyond the dreams of his grandparents or most of his contemporaries elsewhere in the world, Mr. Jones of Dylan's mocking lyric, finds himself in a world more surreal than a moonscape. He looks behind, and realizes that his children are not following. At a frightening distance, in their own arcane pastures of the mind, the young strip and ululate and make love to the accompaniment of manic cacophonies. Even in the Joneses' own backyard, thrusting up between the roses and the hollyhocks, a sharp eye may spot...
...issue between parents and their children that when Mr. and Mrs. Jones discover that a child of theirs is turned-on or freaked-out, they may find themselves, dazed and uncomprehending, turning him over to the police. Pop drugs hardly portend anything as drastic as a new and debauched American spirit, as some alarmists believe. But drug use does reflect some little-recognized shifts in adult American values as well as the persistent unwillingness of youth to accept the straight world. The mounting research on drugs permits some new perspectives on their use and abuse; still, the pop-drug scene...
Pastore's Complaint. (Pas∙'t r∙ēz K m∙'plānt), n. A phobia against violence and sex on television, exacerbated by recent disturbances in American society and by the Noxzema "take-it-all-off" commercial. [Named after Rhode Island Senator John O. Pastore...
...established, the formats are past their prime, and most of the scripts are an insult to intelligence. The fault is certainly not all Pastore's; the television industry is completely capable of hitting bottom all by itself. And if a people gets the television it deserves, the American people should be ashamed of themselves...