Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The second Kennedy assassination-almost two months to the day after the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.-immediately prompted, at home and abroad, deep doubts about the stability of America. Many saw the unleashing of a dark, latent psychosis in the national character, a stain that had its start...
The idea for the Public Theater began with Papp's feeling that, while Shakespeare speaks to modern man, he wanted also to stage contemporary plays dealing with contemporary themes. "I wanted a theater," he explains, "that was doubting, questioning, grey not pink, that took on a social character. The...
Author Portis always streaks his Grand Guignol gore with the humor that is implicit in Mattie's character and situation, although sometimes he is guilty of playing it a bit too quaintsy. Mattie's prowess as a horse trader, for example, is overdrawn to the point where character...
To the activist, that is the very reason that it should be attacked. If in a time of crisis the university cannot forcefully demand social change, then who can? To the student activist, the university is a wishy-washy, impotent liberal--a despicable character.
One hopes that the talk about violence and American character is the start of a period of national introspection but fears that it is mere breast-beating, soothing us in a painful moment of national self-recognition and easing the transition to normalcy, where the National Rifle Association has more...