Word: raisins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raisin on the Screen...
...producer of the motion picture A Raisin in the Sun, and, therefore, a very interested party in its critical reception, I would like to point out a stunning example of TIME'S tortured critical dichotomy...
Where Cinema calls Raisin "a writhing vital mess of tenement racism," Theater called it [ when it appeared on Broadway in 1959] "a well-crafted play...
Whoops-am afraid that TIME'S ever-diminishing pretenses to sophistication took yet another dip by way of its reviewer's baffling determination to employ ante-bellum terminology in his incoherent notation on the movie [Raisin in the Sun]. I don't have any idea what "Mammy" and "blackface" adjectives have to do with reviewing a motion picture, but save your copy; it is believed, in some quarters of the world, that the Herrenvolk may rise again...
...Raisin in the Sun. Tenement realism about family life in Chicago's black belt bursts out in a writhing, vital mess...