Word: classes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until the Depression that history texts began to grapple with the nation's changing social and cultural issues. The most notable grappler was Harold Rugg. In An Introduction to the Problems of American Culture and other books, he boldly discussed class structure, unemployment, even talked of socialism as a possible way of redistributing wealth. His texts were popular with liberals and sold widely. In the mid-1930s nearly half the schoolchildren of America read Rugg. But as war threatened, Rugg was thought to be unAmerican. In 1939 such diverse organizations as the American Legion and the Advertising Federation...
...become more sweeping than a conventional western. It opens in the 1870s with the Harvard graduation of the hero, James Averill, who, like many of his generation, went West to help settle the land. Ten years later, as a federal lawman in Johnson County, he sides against his own class in the growing war between landed gentry and immigrant farmers. His story incorporates themes of love, class struggle and war. Says Kris Kristofferson, who plays Averill: "The movie ends where The Great Gatsby begins...
Registering the Class...
...reality of the 1950s, the time of his own spectacular debut as the author of Goodbye, Columbus. The new book retains the look, if not the actual furniture, of autobiography. Goodbye, Columbus is called Higher Education; its author is Nathan Zuckerman who, like Roth, was raised in a middle-class Jewish section of Newark. His story is based on a family embarrassment, a tale of money, lawsuits and maternal sacrifice that upsets his parents and the pillars of their community. "Can you honestly say that there is anything in your short story that would not warm the heart...
...Class Reunion, Jaffe...