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U.S.A., an adaptation of the John Dos Passos trilogy, covers the frenetic period in American history from 1900 to the Crash, 29 years later. It is an undeniably ambitious subject, one which the well-respected Dos Passos trilogy handles in about 1000 pages, tracing the lives of a representative collection...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: An American Collage | 3/24/1978 | See Source »

AND WHY this frenetic activity of critics, intent on instantly gauging the impact of every book, committing it to or excising it from the pages of literary history? If every new work which has been hailed or advertised in recent years as a 'new masterpiece,' an 'enduring monument' were collected...

Author: By Christopher Agee, | Title: Profits and the Press | 2/28/1978 | See Source »

In "Talk To Me," for example, she spews forth her urgent need in a frenetic stream of self-debasing words:

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Angels and Devils | 2/7/1978 | See Source »

By contrast, the other actors generally remain trapped within the superficial seriousness of their roles. From the first moment he rushes onstage to confront the king, John Bellucci's Hotspur is the embodiment of the choleric passions that gave that character his name. Racing from lord to lord in a...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: The Kingdom and the Power | 12/15/1977 | See Source »

Toffler's theories about the disaffection of many members of modern society would infuriate any Marxist. The problem with society today, Toffler says, has little to do with the separation of the wage-earner form the fruits of his labor or the inability of modern man to realize himself through...

Author: By I. WYATT Emmench, | Title: Pop Sociology and Technocrats | 12/10/1977 | See Source »

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