Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current plight of American drama reflects attrition of imagination rather than Philistine commercialism. The leading playwrights are faltering or repetitive. Films, TV and advertising have lured away young potential dramatists, thus giving volatile intellectual fashionmongers an excuse to depict the theater as enervating or backward. One barometer of the theatrical weather is the latest work of the best U.S. playwrights. For more than two decades, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams have dominated the American stage in much the way that Hemingway and Faulkner once dominated the novel. Miller is dramatically the descendant of Ibsen and socioeconomically the child of Marx...
Back in Washington for a talk to the Burro Club, the gathering of aides to Democratic Congressmen, he was by turns philosophic, nostalgic and proud. He looked forward to the day when he would teach at the University of Texas, looked backward to the happy times when he was a Congressman and Senator, and looked sideways at the historians who will judge the achievements of the Johnson years. "I believe that you know," he said, "and that our children will know, and all history will know, that that is an unparalleled record." The fencing for a site to negotiate with...
Sert blamed this country's outmoded zoning laws and federal legislation for hindering progress in design of low-cost living units. "The United States is one of the most backward countries in the world in low-cost housing," he said...
...Ruether starts with the premise that Christianity has a built-in tension. Jesus' original proclamation was an eschatological vision looking ahead to the end of the world; yet any church inevitably takes on cultural forms and thus looks backward into history. She concedes that the church as an institution is necessary; but the more it becomes a prisoner of tradition the less able it is to keep alive the prophetic spirit that gives it meaning. The ideal state of the church, she argues, is not a formalized organization of worshipers but a community, an event, a human happening. This...
...Zanuck and Hyman, who make the deals and handle the creative side of moviemaking, Evans is responsible only for the production schedule, which now includes some 70 projects. Twice-divorced, Evans works an 18-hour day, rarely appears at Hollywood functions. With good reason: Paramount is probably the most backward of the major studios (it received precisely one 1967 Oscar nomination). Trade rumors have it that Evans may soon be ousted, but so far he has proved as unbudgeable as the Hollywood Hills...