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...script, one might question whether Roosevelt's life and personality are best adapted to the solo format. The theater has hosted a plethora of such fare in the past decade and the most successful examples of the genre are usually those plays which focus on more introverted types than FDR. An Emily Dickinson who seldom leaves the confines of her New England home, or a Mark Twain who addresses most of his scathing satire to an anonymous audience, are far less confined by the formidable constraints of the genre than Roosevelt, the quintessential social animal. Because Roosevelt always directs...
...unprecedented scale. Although historical critics may reproach him for some of his methods and motives, few find fault with the quality of his leadership during those difficult years. Like other great presidents, Roosevelt rose to the challenge of overwhelming events and refused to be overwhelmed by them. The play FDR chronicles those events, but unfortunately it does not fare as well as the man himself...
...work at two we're done, jolly good fun," is actually the world's most advanced welfare state. The lushness of the make-believe countryside, filmed in a beautiful early attempt at color, contrasts starkly with the monochromatic depression reality of dustbowl Kansas. Oz, of course, is really FDR: he can't really do the miraculous things people say he can, but he can give them faith in themselves. And that, the film suggests, is all you really need...
...cent more expensive to live in than the rest of the country. Consequently, Leary blames the city's racial troubles on underlying class tensions. The street corner troublemakers who fought so tenaciously and blindly defending Southie High (a 1901 structure with a new wing built as one of FDR's WPA projects in the '30s) from black school children saw their neighborhoods' prized possession being "taken" by a threatening, upwardly mobile group...
...League status. Besides all this, who else can show off such prominent alumni as James Schlesinger, Henry Kissinger, Archibald Cox, James D(NA) Watson, and Teddy Kennedy, along with some lively cynicism from Ralph Nader. And then what about distinguished likes of Henry James, John Dos Passos, FDR, Norman Mailer (who did not write the Monroe doctrine), Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Joseph Alsop, Frederick Lewis Allen...All right, I give up! I concede! Harvard is tradition, for God's sake...