Word: kingsley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concedes, mod England made a pleasant enough dream, set to music by the Beatles and costumed by Mary Quant. It all seemed a carnival of wit and style. At moments the carnival even appeared to have direction. Plays like John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, novels like Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim, revues like Beyond the Fringe seemed to be acts of ruddy good health against a moribund Establishment. Old England was dead. Long live new England...
Like Jane Austen, Elizabeth Jane Howard (Mrs. Kingsley Amis) constructs her novel by pairing off her people with a series of outsiders and observing the consequences-in this case, a miscarriage, a Riviera love affair and a slow poisoning. Like Evelyn Waugh, the author believes that fate has the blind staggers. She takes peculiar delight in showing that there is no justice in the distribution of misery and joy, no allowance made for innocence or effort. Alice, for example, succeeds in escaping her father's house-but ends up unhappily married in a "luxury bungalow with Spanish-style touches...
...questions arise. The structures set up on Saturday will be removed for future use and the land will be returned to itself on Sunday afternoon, ending with a two-hour musical clean-up. (Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci has suggested that Earth People begin to make regular use of Kingsley Park adjacent to Fresh Pond for day and evening celebrations.) People should bring anything and everything to raise goodvibes, and a plastic garbage bag to absorb the excess. People also should walk or do anything else to get to the Festival rather than drive in cars. Containers of all kinds used...