Word: disillusionments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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U.S.A. is the portrait of a national illusion, or rather, of national disillusion. The closer America moved toward that disillusionment, the farther away its people grew from themselves, running about and seemingly never exerting even a modicum of control over their own lives. America of this period is well suited for a novel or play that examines that superficiality and gets at the pain lying beneath it. But Manulis's U.S.A. omits far too much of what transpires beneath the surface. What remains after the newsreel and strung together character collages is a superficial play about superficial people...
The invitations, suitably enough, arrived in a brown paper bag. They were for the Chicago opening of a musical based on Working, Author Studs Terkel's 1974 bestseller. Directed by Composer Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, God spell), the play is a working man's Chorus Line telling, in separate...
The harvest of these policies has been widespread disillusion and anger. Some 90,000 Laotians have already fled across the Mekong River to Thailand, and an additional 1,000 leave each month. Thousands of others actively oppose the regime; as a result, nearly half of Laos, including much of the...
By leaving in 1930, Barzini narrowly escaped the plague of disillusion that followed in the wake of the Depression. To the weary European of 68, the U.S. remains the only place he can still find a special amalgam of innocence and expectation.
General Strategy. Some form new splinter groups, others in their disillusion are drifting toward the Socialists, still others try to reverse the "democratic" trend within the party apparat. The Communists are still a great potential danger in Western Europe, particularly since the bourgeois parties have no general strategy on how...