Word: polyanna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIMES, Shebib timorously approaches the ideas defining his characters' conditions. Peter, hungry for a place in society beyond his education and cultural reach, has been brainwashed by the Polyanna media. Joey is sucked into high-powered consumerism. Both are removed from any contact with the upper classes. Truly saddening are the attempts Peter makes to talk with a Satan-enthralled ingenue in a record shop, and a coed of more super-ficial pretensions reading Hesse in a park. He is, in both cases, peremptorily cut off. It is probably a symptom of general urban paranoia that this action seems almost...
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