Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...POVERTY. Despite some scandals, and mismanagement, the antipoverty program draws surprising endorsement from the nation's wisest money managers. Besides feeling a moral obligation to help the poor, businessmen support the spending for the sound economic reason that it will upgrade the nation's manpower resources and create new consumer markets. Says Martin Gainsbrugh, vice president of the National Industrial Conference Board: "This is the one domestic program that we are not willing...
Comedy and tragedy are no longer separate masks; they have become interchangeable, just as heroes and villains are frequently indistinguishable. Movies still make moral points, but the points are rarely driven home in the heavy-hammered old way. And like some of the most provocative literature, the film now is apt to be amoral, casting a coolly neutral eye on life and death and on humanity's most perverse moods and modes...
Paving the Way. The growing mass audience has been prepared for change and experiment both by life and art. It has seen-and accepted-the questioning of moral traditions, the demythologizing of ideals, the pulverizing of esthetic principles in abstract painting, atonal music and the experimental novel. Beyond that, oddly enough, younger moviemen credit television with a major role in paving the way for acceptance of the new in films...
...acquisitive society, things are the measure of all men. The moral of Edward Albee's latest play, Everything in the Garden, is that hell is possessions. In the rush to acquire status-bearing objects, his characters trample on love, decency and honor and are left in destitution of spirit. Garden is not so much a black as a tattletale-grey comedy. Based on a British play by the late Giles Cooper, Garden sometimes lapses into melodrama and implausibility, but it is Albee's most satisfying dramatic effort since Virginia Woolf...
Albee might have given Garden more moral impact by exercising more audacity. Suppose the wives had loved their work, and the husbands had quit theirs...