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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel, Wouk points out the gap between the average American woman's ("Shirley's") conception of herself, and the reality of her possibilities. Every "Shirley", Wouk believes, wants to be Hemingway's Lady Brett Ashley, and is incapable of being such. Since Wouk sides with the "Shirleys" it is plain that he thinks 1.) the average American woman is more admirable, in her beliefs and prejudices than her opposites or her critics; and 2.) that these critics of conventional morality cause only confusion and suffering in minds that are satisfied by religion and social mores...
...Treasury George Humphrey, 65; former New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, 53; Secretary of State Dulles, 67; Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, 47; Presidential Assistant (for Disarmament) Harold Stassen, 48; Massachusetts Governor Christian Herter, 60. But all of the talking this week was being done by journalists and just plain voters. It would take Republican leaders quite a while to become accustomed to their new and unhappy-but by no means hopeless-situation...
farmers really in as bad shape as the figures indicate? Everyone agrees that many farmers are in a squeeze, and that it hurts no matter whether it is called a rolling readjustment (similar to what industry went through in 1954) or a plain, ordinary slump. After years of unparalleled prosperity, the farmer's share of the consumer's food dollar is down from 52? in 1946 to 42?. Farm parity (the index of what farmers receive in relation to what they must pay for what they buy) has slipped to 84, the lowest point since the beginning...
When Novelist Albert Camus (The Plague, The Stranger) wrote his essay on The Myth of Sisyphus in 1940 (now fully published in the U.S. for the first time), the agony of Western civilization and the German occupation of France seemed to make deadly plain what such Nordic philosophers as Heidegger, Kierkegaard and Jaspers had argued: that man's reason cannot give reason to man's life. In this extremity, some intellectuals got religion; others followed Jean-Paul Sartre into leftwing, atheistic existentialism. Camus, however, tries to escape both from the existentialists ("Negation is their God") and from...
Protagonists in this painful tale are a Pulitzer Prize playwright, an oh-so-Marilyn-Monroe-like Hollywood star, and a plain young man of almost no attributes who attains great success in love and literature through a pact with the devil--in the guise, as one might have guessed, of his Hollywood agent. Axelrod's fumbling attempt to give the thing a measure of significance in the last act adds considerably to the burden of the performers, who have a hard enough time making anything of their lines during the first two-thirds of the play...