Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cars with lots of chrome, blinking computers everywhere, Las Vegas, Gary Cooper. It seemed like paradise, but good old Richard Cory just went and shot himself. In spite of its inane aspects, the recent flood of nostalgia is a healthy rehabilitation of national symbols, a growing out of adolescent shame and embarrassment about "home" and a gradual realization that what is commonly thought of as uncultured, vulgar (i.e., new and unEuropean) is exactly what is unique about America...
...Virgin Spring, 4:10, 7:30, 10:45; Through a Glas Darkly, 5:50, 9:10, tonight; Wild Strawberries, 4:10, 7:30, The Silence, 5:50, 9:10, tomorrow and Saturday; Shame, 4:10, 7:45, 11:10; Hour of the Wolf, 6:05, 9:35, starts Sunday...
...Sinatra sounded fuller of voice than he has in years, Ella delivered her love songs like a woman who realizes she looks more like a schoolmarm than a possible vamp, and the Count, how roly-poly in old age, played only three numbers with his band, which was a shame. But their fans have not faded away. The opening-night audience included former New York York Mayor Robert Wagner, 65, ex-Governor Averell Harriman, 83, Lauren Bacall, 51, and Gregory Peck, 59. With mezzanine seats selling for $35 each and orchestra seats going for $40, Uris Theater managers expected...
...What a shame that such a lovely place is inhabited and represented by such snobs...
Full perfume of the swamp, indeed. Whether a scholar who writes in so deep a shade of purple can even comprehend shame is uncertain. Yet Wolfs conclusion has some merit. Stoker, who was secretary to the actor Sir Henry Irving, shrewdly swotted Transylvanian geography and vampire lore at the British Museum reading room. His gleanings provided a European psychohistory before the term was coined, covering half-remembered terrors with gothic cobwebs. Stoker wrote several other romances of no particular power, but in Dracula he managed to create a classic, forever stalking his readers when their moral and rational defenses...