Word: mens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sooner or later, of course, the television weather-men will promise us a dry air mass from somewhere, and when we wake up the sun will apparently be shining. But we won't be fooled. We'll know it's still raining where it counts...
When certain privileged Brazilian cows get pregnant, they'll have Harvard men to thank...
Along with Mister, Blitzstein indicts the men who prostitute their integrity for his benediction, favors, and, primarily, his money. These include the local preacher. the local newspaper editor, the president and faculty members of the university and even the artists and musicians...
...radical things, but who runs the city of Boston? Is it the tenants or the landlords? Who decides what happens to the air in every city in America? The people who breathe it or the gas companies and the owners of Standard Oil? Somehow, on the critical matters, the men of wealth and power and privilege in America make the decisions of life and death for everyone else. The program notes reprinted this quote from Howard Zinn's Moratorium Day speech and the play gives the answer...
...Cradle Will Rock was a hard play to kill. The need still exists for people to wrest control of their lives from the governments and businesses and the men who pander themselves to money and power. This Saturday, the memory of men like Blitzstein will be honored. "One day when everybody gets together" says Larry Foreman in the final scene...