Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bundy, former dean of the faculty at Harvard, discussed his recent book, Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years, explaining that he "deliberately didn't address the particular choices" the upcoming administration would have to make. Bush's major problem in dealing with nuclear policy, Bundy said, would be to "address the absence of serious compromises between the president and the legislature...
Within these treatments of the past, however, lay basic, nagging questions about historical purpose. Why do Levine's book and other works--which are uniformly critical of the state of American society today--even attempt to find a rosy past? Wouldn't their critiques of repugnant, self-perpetuating class divisions in America be enhanced by demonstrating that the American experiment was flawed from the start? Why acknowledge that there was a time--however brief--when America was able to right itself and lay down the roots of a just society...
Levine instead suggests that these "popularized" plays "may be understood more meaningfully as having integrated [Shakespeare] into American culture." The Berkeley professor convincingly makes a similar case in the book that opera, the "fine" arts, like painting and sculpture, as well as "classical" music, once integrated American society, but now divide...
...States during the final decades of the 19th century the same transformation was evidently taking place; Shakespeare was being divorced from the broader world of everyday culture." Vague or not, it is precisely this transformation--not the cultural history in and of itself--that is the subject of the book...
...falls in love. The twist to the plot comes when Nina is on trial for murder. Selleck, who is intrigued by her physical beauty, believes her to be innocent. He takes her under his wing by acting as her alibi; he uses her story to inspire the long overdue book that he is writing, and before you know it, voila, he falls in love with...