Word: manzanares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quieter level of chance taking, Farewell to Manzanar (NBC, Thursday, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) deserves respect too. It is a semidocumentary drama about the internment of our Japanese citizenry during World War II. It gives a good general picture of how the internees turned a collection of ill-constructed barracks at Manzanar into something resembling a community, of the conflicts between those who counseled open rebellion against their absurd imprisonment and those who advised patience. The Spirit at Manzanar became a dignified resistance in which individuality was not sacrificed to the survivor's ethic. The story, in which a family...