Word: modernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First, Latin America must complete the foundations for modern technological societies through extensive expenditures on schools, roads, dams, housing, and training. We cannot expect private capital to underwrite these long-term investments, for profits will be delayed. Thus, the United States must provide additional foreign aid as capital for such long-term investments...
...only Miss Oates were content to be just a modern romancer-to go all the way with her unnerved vision. Her trouble is that she seems to regard her book variously as a black-humor exercise, a parable of national sickness of heart, and, worst of all, a realistic piece of social reportage. Too cool for fantasy, too hysterical for imagination, Expensive People says too little half the time, and too much the other half...
...author, a former journalist, is said to have been "a full-time member of the circle she re-creates so vividly," but her novel reads as if it had been re searched in back numbers of Modern Romances. All the women's-fiction cliches are present: men are "movie-hero tall and handsome"; there is nearly as much obstetrics as sex; crises arise from the misbehavior of children and the absence of husbands at birthday parties. Teddy White would never recognize the politics, although anybody over 13 should have no trouble recognizing the personnel...
...narrow theatrical orthodoxy which insists on treating all plays of a given place and period alike, whose loyalty is to a set of rules empirically drawn from history rather than to the will of an author as unfolded in his work. Above and beyond this considerable accomplishment, Mayer's modern-dress treatment of Euripedes' classic is all-told the most intoxicating thing launched these last few years on a Boston stage...
...Bacchae, the gods are gods indeed, but their order is--besides whimsical--cruel and misguided. And Mayer's willingness to portray Dionysus as an effeminate, self-absorbed individual, worthy of nearly every label the unbelieving Pentheus attaches to him, brings this side of Euripedes out into the open. The modern costumes, particularly the policemen's garbs in which Pentheus's men are clothed, suggest the further metaphor of entrapment: Dionysus himself seems to have unleashed the chain of events leading to Pentheus' death...