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...market. "In the late 1960s," he says, "we had a market that rose to a peak because it was built on speculation and hope. Then came the big decline, and millions of people got hurt. Today there is a return to conservatism in America. A majority of people cherish the forms of this society, but are fearful that they will be destroyed. Today they see nothing to make them hope. We are still in the Viet Nam War, and we still have social unrest...
...cause ageism and underscore the obsolescence of the old. It is also the nature of modern Western culture. In some societies, explains Anthropologist Margaret Mead, "the past of the adults is the future of each new generation," and therefore is taught and respected. Thus, primitive families stay together and cherish their elders. But in the modern U.S., family units are small, the generations live apart, and social changes are so rapid that to learn about the past is considered irrelevant. In this situation, new in history, says Miss Mead, the aged are "a strangely isolated generation," the carriers...
...also allowed her to be unintentionally funny, as when she dismisses her brother's bastard daughter Essic with the comment, "Your history isn't fit for your own ears to hear." Mary Wright is appealing as the orphaned Essic, a rose among thorns whom the heretical Dick comes to cherish...
Fred Baker's direction is determinedly uninspired, and his actors-with the exception of the alluring Miss Wener-are lackadaisical. What gives Events some small distinction is its sense that young people can be destroyed by the very freedom they cherish and often exploit...
...life of nations, beyond the averages of a little compromise at home and a little conquest abroad, beyond the mediocrities of blood and power, beyond comfort. In short, the radicals-always excepting the most violent fringe -insist that America must be great. That is why, within reason, we must cherish them...