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...summertime, on mountaintops and mesas, down in valleys, out on beaches, back up in hollows, there is staged in America what goes by the name of outdoor drama. Historical works for the most part, family entertainment (young people playing good and brave and true Indians, loutish colonists, supercilious monarchs), they exist, in the hope of snagging tourists, in spots that afford a vista. The oldest of these productions is The Lost Colony, which was commenced in the summer of 1937 on Roanoke Island, a sandspit between Nags Head and the mainland of North Carolina. The director for the past...
...million Americans were out of work. One day after the 1932 Olympics began, Hitler's National Socialists won a plurality of seats in the German parliament. In 1932 Mussolini told his countrymen, "I foresee a long series of political, economic and military wars." And Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World. And the opening ceremonies of the Olympics came off without a hitch...
...from A Clockwork Orange, officials would show gay men nude photos, administering drugs to make them ill when the subjects were male. The prisoners, naturally, learned to register false enthusiasm for female nudes, according to Poet Heberto Padilla, who insists that "manly" homosexuality was rampant in the regime. One brave and touching transvestite, named...
Handsome and soft-spoken, Bailey is not reluctant to raise his voice when he thinks promoters are exploiting drivers by making tracks too easy to give poorer drivers a chance, or cutting back on prize money to save expenses. "I'm brave enough and frustrated enough to speak out," he says. "I would like to help the sport...
...successful black revolution in an unnamed land. Broad social justice has unquestionably triumphed, but the blessings are bestowed unevenly. The new regime finds itself increasingly embarrassed by Sinclair ("General Giant") Zwedu, the military hero of the war for freedom. The blunt soldier does not mix easily in the brave new world of international alliances and monetary congresses. His former colleagues shunt Zwedu toward oblivion, using the lure of well-heeled debauchery. In A City of the Dead, a City of the Living, a black couple in Soweto take in a visitor who may have been involved in the terrorist bombing...