Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gruff status--quo of the father--dominated household. Along the way, Gilroy would have us believe, they all learn a lot about each other and begin to appreciate each other more. How this play ever won anything, much less a Pulitzer, is beyond us; it must have been a bad year...
Most often bad-mouthed and maligned, it is also the most feared and respected. At full strength and without a hand tied behind its back, it could be the perfect answer to the Cubans in Africa...
Solzhenitsyn is a type of Isaiah, the angry prophet who arises when mankind is seriously misbehaving to denounce the age and its sins. People like to be scolded, especially when their conscience is bad - as it is in this last quarter of the terrible 20th century. This explains the Solzhenitsyn cult. He is fashionable; he is our Savonarola. I do not believe everything he says about Western society, although it is useful to hear his strictures; they make us think. Relatively speaking, however, I think America has good qualities, perhaps less operative now than they might be, but inherent, nonetheless...
...affecting stories are chronicles of personal trial. Keng Erh is a scientist, returned from America, who enjoys the privileged status of a leading intellectual: a maid, a small apartment of his own, even a refrigerator. But he is forbidden to marry the woman of his choice because of her "bad" class background. In "Chairman Mao Is a Rotten Egg," a young mother is virtually overcome by anxiety because her small child is rumored to have repeated a counterrevolutionary slogan picked up on the street from his playmates. K'uai Shih-fu is a common worker who, irritated because...
Rick Burleson raised his batting average to .253 after yesterday's game, not bad for a guy who was hitting .198 only four weeks...