Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author of Marat/ Sade and The Investigation, is best known as one of the more strident practitioners of the theater of fact. Therefore it should come as no surprise that this novel contains little fancy; it is frankly and almost completely autobiographical. Like his plays, Exile is a characteristically raw and intensely passionate statement. Weiss's first-person hero is a German-born half Jew who at 18 leaves his country to get away from the Nazis. He subsequently sojourns in England, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and Sweden (where Weiss now lives). But the title refers not so much...
Bedraggled Familiarity. Official silence cannot, however, heal the sores laid raw by Corson. Because he is an insider, his strictures will galvanize critics of the war. To Corson, the pacification strategy of the Marines was correct, and victory in Viet Nam is being thwarted by the Army's blind reliance on hardware and explosives. Corson's chosen weapons are the type of security his tiny teams afforded, coupled with social justice and an attempt to free the peasant from both Saigon's tyranny and Viet Cong terror. "I don't want to see wars of national...
Where soul is really at today is pop music. It emanates from the rumble of gospel chords and the plaintive cry of the blues. It is compounded of raw emotion, pulsing rhythm and spare, earthy lyrics?all suffused with the sensual, somewhat melancholy vibrations of the Negro idiom. Always the Negro idiom. LeRoi Jones, the militant Negro playwright, says: "Soul music is music coming out of the black spirit." For decades, it only reverberated around the edges of white pop music, injecting its native accent here and there; now it has penetrated to the core, and its tone and beat...
Eugene has his Mary, Hubert his Nancy, Dick has Tricia and Julie-yet those campaigning daughters are raw rookies compared with the girl stumping for California's Governor. Maureen Reagan, 27, Ronnie's daughter by his first marriage to Jane Wyman, has been on the hustings for nearly a decade and raps out a line conservative enough to leave her dad in left field. Maureen has toured for the ultra-rightist Constitutional Alliance, recorded folk songs (sample lyrics: "If you fight and your belief is right You'll never let freedom die"), and visited more than...
...summer in Chicago and all over. Tom Wicker was saying that hundreds of thousands would resist. Then General Hershey would not be able to get enough men, and maybe the war would end in that kind of glory. The thousands of college seniors and grad students would be the raw material for a massive movement for social change in this country...