Word: crash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national consciousness, the automobile began to play an important part in our literature. Clyde Griffiths, the American Dream hero of Dreiser's American Tragedy, sets out on his destructive way after an afternoon joyride ends in a bloody smash-up. Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby resolves itself after a car crash...
...LATE. Even though the crash enables Sonny and Gunner to throw off their parents and begin life on their own terms, you can't help but wonder what exactly it is that the heroes are beginning. What is in the pot when you go all the way to the end of the rainbow...
...only necessary to recall the decade Sonny and Gunner were inadvertently hurled into-one of political assassinations, absurd war, and tumultuous racial strife-to appreciate the futility of their journey. If you can escape one car crash, you live only to be propelled into the big new one around the corner...
...into three sections. The first, called "Bimini," ends when Andrew and David, Hudson's two young sons by an estranged wife, are killed with their mother in a distant automobile wreck. (Patrick and Gregory, Hemingway's two sons by his second wife, were injured in an auto crash in 1947.) In "Bimini," though, Hudson's confrontation with this tragedy is mercifully kept brief. Most of the section is a summer idyl, drenched in martini golds and Gulf Stream blues, centered around the sons and an only slightly too epic fishing trip on what is clearly Hemingway...
Rogers died in a plane crash at Point Barrow, Alaska, in 1935, along with the globe-girdling pilot, Wiley Post. In the nostalgia of Whitmore's performance, it is refreshing to be reminded of a time when a man who had amassed millions could scuff his toes at success and say quite simply, "Shucks, I was just an old cowhand that had a bit of luck...