Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been less enlightened. George Bernard Shaw once complained that the Lord Chamberlain "robs, insults, and suppresses me as if he were the Czar of Russia. I must submit in order to obtain from him an insolent and insufferable document [the license] which I cannot read without boiling of the blood...
...setting for confrontation; he succeeds in connecting the cries of the bloodied hippies to the eerie death wail of the gutted cattle. "Chicago was a town where nobody could ever forget how the money was made," he writes. "It was picked up from the floors still slippery with blood, and if one did not protest and take a vow of vegetables, one knew at least that life was hard life was in the flesh and in the massacre of flesh-one breathed the last agonies of beasts." In this setting, in fact, Mailer engages in a bit of butchery...
...undressed. She races ahead-then turns back to help him put of his girdle. And the charge itself is almost entirely successful. The rigid troops move forward like wind-up toy soldiers, under the hypnotic spell of unquestioned tradition. The firing begins; the hoofs and bodies and blood combine. Screams and guns seem to reach beyond the screen. The hysteria and terror are as palpable as dust; the slaughter is a testament to the inanity of blind obedience. By itself, the scene is confused and intense. It is harrowing, and it is magnificent. But it does not make a movie...
Unhistoric Acts. George Eliot died in 1880. Critics still regard her as a monumental pioneer in literary technique-the unhappy ending, for example, and the creation of women characters who, if they are never shown in bed, are at least composed of flesh and blood. What stands between George Eliot and modern readers, however, is not merely her habit of intrusive and lengthy moralizing but the play of sentiment, which embarrasses perhaps for the very reason that it is so sincere. Richly mixed in, for those who wait to find it, are psychological insights that are penetrating and wittily precise...
...superficial, and in supreme contrast to Morse, bland. As Morse reflects the past, Packwood symbolizes Modern Oregon--the freeways along the Columbia, the Manhattan-like skyscrapers of down-town Portland. Packwood is a progressive Republican, somewhat along the lines of Illinois' Senator Percy. He descends from Oregon's blue-blood establishment, and offers Oregonians a staid, mildly progressive alternative to Morse's turbulent Senate career...