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...other extreme, On Freedom's Ground takes a look at New York harbor as it might have been before it became a beachhead of the New World. The vision is harsh, deterministic, featuring a wind "which blew/ Not as it chose, but as it had to do." The invasion of humanity is hardly the despoliation of paradise: "Where was the thought of freedom then?/ It came ashore within the minds...
Whose shadows track across a harsh terrain...
That is Kazan's truest tone -- flat and harsh, undercutting his own attempts at rationalization with the bitterly truthful ring he cannot keep out of his voice. It is the voice of a man with no patience for poetry (he confesses that when he staged Archibald MacLeish's J.B. he simply moved the actors whenever he was bored, which was approximately every three lines) and no patience for ideological impositions, intellectual cant or institutional stability. It is perhaps a peasant's voice, valuing survival above all. But surely it is an actor's voice, one that knows it is impossible...
...drug lords have responded to the narcotics crackdown in a particularly devastating manner. To avoid the harsh jail sentences mandated by new federal and state laws, kingpins are using teenagers to distribute drugs on the streets...
...This time, snatching an occasional jersey in anger, he lasted only slightly longer. The word was that Robinson could not communicate with the modern ballplayers. "I communicate with them," he said. "I just tell them things they don't want to hear." The whispers were that he was especially harsh with the blacks...