Word: happier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...signs that the United States is undergoing a vast social transition have become clear enough that only the willfully blind would expect things to go on pretty much as usual. Having more has not made Americans happier; faith in the facile god of technology has come tumbling down, along with the DC-10s and Three Mile island and Skylab and military helicopters; America's position as the dominant economic and military power has dissolved; social problems have proven intractable no matter how huge the central government becomes; confidence in all major institutions is at a historic low; the mainline religious...
...union made public relations blunders, destroying some of the presses and assaulting reporters. The Post turned public opinion against the strikers and busted the union, driving it right out of business. The strike story ends like nearly every story in The Pillars: with the Post owners richer and happier, and Bray, a touch awed, delighted to tell the tale...
...your mind wander back over the recently completed 1979-80 season. Think about the season-opening destruction of Clark University, back in November. This column is getting happier already...
Later, a troupe of dancers and singers comes onstage and does a cakewalk to the accompaniment of a ragtime banjo. This is fun and lightens the darker moments, but it is a trifle deceptive. Williams has always been a master at utilizing period music to invoke memories of happier times and the certainty of loss. Director William Prosser makes sensitive contact with the inner spirit of the play, and, considering that the company is a mix of amateurs and professionals, the result is creditable. The indisputable triumph belongs to the citizens of Key West, who gave selfless hours and years...
There were happier things too, about Dreamland--nights in cars with girls whose names were Diana Leigh and Valerie Lynn, girls whose names ran together if their faces did not; of hunting in crisp mornings for pheasant and grouse on ground that crackled as you walked over it. But Dreamland remained gray; gray shadows broken and heightened by little bands of neon, when the Bells of the past spoke to Thomas Scott Bell at Harvard, calling in his own mind to him above the clutter and emotion of being tremendously alone in a tone of evil desperation...