Word: followers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wars, talking of using taxes to redistribute the nation's wealth, creating standby wage-price controls, launching expensive new social programs and generally impressing Wall Street as being antibusiness. Though far from satisfied with Ford, investors prefer him to Carter, regarding the President as a man likely to follow a steady course and not make unwanted waves. As Carter's campaign gained, stumbled, then gained again, Wall Street marked time, waiting to see if Ford could catch...
...beliefs, and his old reasons for getting up in the morning. The sense of identity he used to wear around so comfortably just doesn't seem to fit anymore. Faced with an overwhelming sense of emptiness and panic, Conrad urges himself to "Get the motions right. The motives will follow...
What does follow is a battle of nerves and feelings, for both Conrad and his parents. Each twists and turns under an ever increasing sense of guilt and failure until in the end, all three move in their separate ways from denial and repression to an acceptance and forgiveness of what is, rather than what should have been...
THEATER RITUALIZES LIFE. Time is condensed, people's behavior is more rigorously guided by certain formulae, the actors tend to follow a proscribed order of words. Jean-Claude van Itallie '58 pushes this transformation even further in The Serpent by representing life as a kind of religious ceremony. In a series of 14 episodes, he attempts to integrate Biblical revelation with the human condition in the United States of the 1960s, and the result is visually engaging but conceptually strained...
...orgiastic coupling (oddly, desolately devoid of kisses and confined to pawing) is the last readily intelligible episode; tedium and bewilderment follow. Van Itallie's script calls for the portrayal of labor, birth and child-raising, petering into a dance of death, but these developments aren't clear in performance...