Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other two plays. It is one further step removed from what we call naturalism and hardly seems to be taking place on earth. It is essentially not a comedy, and the language operates on a fantastical poetic level that is closer to the cosmos than the nitty-gritty of American life...
There is nothing to do. As one character puts it (in a line that gives the best quick explanation of why the dream of American youth is dropping out that I have ever heard in a theatre): "It's a funny world full of funny freaks. You can't plan on anything. It's all so stupid in the end. I can't do anything anymore. All I want to do is sleep now; and cat now; and drink now; and smoke now; and bet now; and bowl now; and fuck now. I don't want to do anything else...
This Wednesday, October 15th, may go down as the most infamous day in American history...
...returned to Harvard as an American History and Literature major and found himself in Eliot House. On rare occasions Alan Heimert will confide that Stauder was in his sophomore tutorial. Stauder remembers the tutorial but is as anxious as Heimert not to talk about...
Single file and almost silent, the marchers move across Memorial Bridge, past the drab Navy offices to the White House, and on to the Capitol. Each marcher carries a candle and a placard with the name of an American soldier killed...