Word: everymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American mind is the character of the alleged perpetrators. The deed was not performed by patently demented men. Instead, according to the ample testimony of their friends and relatives, the men of C Company who swept through My Lai were for the most part almost depressingly normal. They were Everymen, decent in their daily lives, who at home in Ohio or Vermont would regard it as unthinkable to maliciously strike a child, much less kill one. Yet men in American uniforms slaughtered the civilians of My Lai. and in so doing humiliated the U.S. and called in question...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Tom Stoppard's inside look at Hamlet, takes the little men of Elsinore and transforms them into little Everymen...
With all the coy ferocity of a Ming dynasty dragon, a deftly carved ivory Guerrilla crouches, defending the motherland against the wicked U.S. air pirates. In Reception, a stalwart group of ivory workers, looking like a miniature convocation of George Segal's plastered everymen, hangs breathlessly on the open-ended words of a Susskindly Chairman Mao. As propaganda, China's purveyors of political wisdom have clearly produced sculpture that is less polemic than totemic, but as art for art's sake-the show has more chuckles than any fun house at the Venice Biennale...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD takes the little men of Shakespeare and transforms them into the little Everymen of Beckett. In his American debut, British Playwright Tom Stoppard, 30, offers an agile, witty play that snaps with verbal acrobatics and precisely choreographed dances of the mind, while coming heart-beat close to the pity and terror of mortality. In the title roles, Brian Murray and John Wood are phenomenal, and Derek Goldby's direction has tensile strength...
...today in the hands of such writers as Saul Bellow-whose Herzog has his great moment at the end of the book when he manages to summon enough strength to tell his cleaning woman to sweep the kitchen. Other literary "heroes" are fall guys, incipient madmen, badgered Everymen, victims. Their motto, says Daniel Aaron, professor of English at Smith, seems to be, "Call me schlemiel." In more mundane life, there is much revulsion against the pose, if not the reality, of heroism. "Ya wanna be a hero?" is a mockery, not a compliment...