Word: dramas
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Virtually Ungovernable. When the Communists took over in 1949, China could hardly have been in worse condition. It was in the midst of a great historic drama-and the U.S. watched it with deep concern, for China has always held a unique place in the American imagination. After two millenniums of maintaining an exquisitely sophisticated culture in relative isolation from the world, China was invaded by the West-by its traders, missionaries, soldiers and technicians. First under Sun Yatsen, whose revolution overthrew the Manchu empire, then under Chiang Kaishek, new leaders struggled to rescue the Chinese spirit from repeated foreign...
Family series on U.S. television have laugh tracks, Doris Day, cute kids, lovable ghosts, Fred MacMurray and hilarious situations. What they don't have with any consistency is writing, characterization, drama, style and insight. Except, this season, for The Forsyte Saga, which begins a 26-week series this Sunday night on National Educational Television. For a turn-of-the-century English family, the Forsytes have everything: a generation gap (in fact, a three-generation gap), extramarital lust, intramarital lust, rape, divorce, birth, death, intrigue...
...familiar events. From the bus boycott through the Atlanta sitins, from the jailing in Birmingham to the assassination in Memphis, Mrs. King succeeds not merely by adding intimate touches but by providing a personal context within which the events of King's public life take on a deepened drama. "If anybody had told me a couple of years ago that I would be in this position," King once explained to Coretta, "I would have avoided it with all my strength. But gradually you take some responsibility, then a little more, until finally you are not in control any more...
Director Bobbi Edelson has constructed a symbolic drama whose characters are representations with whom one identifies on an intellectual rather than emotional level. She has emphasized the ritualized aspects of becoming a woman, where each step toward role "choice" is predetermined. In this light, the girls' bewildered resistance hasn't a chance against the system...
BASICALLY, I'm pretty apolitical. Given a choice between polities and art, I prefer my art unsullied. So, why ain't this a drama review you ask, Because I began last Sunday by reading the Times' "The Week in Review," which predicted that the nation would stumble into yet another cataclysm sometime this fall. Like by October 15, and certainly by the November march on Washington that is bound to follow. Poor Richard is likely to feel quite threatened, as he did at last week's news conference where he said that Senator Goodell's plan...