Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAZA SUITE. The impersonality of a hotel room has been the setting for many a personal encounter. Neil Simon arrives with three short comedies in which Maureen Stapleton and E. G. Marshall play three different couples whose experiences in a Fifth Avenue hostelry range from the wistfully amusing to the farcical...
WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. In this collection of short stories and essays, the author, posing as a mod scientist at the controls of a literary time machine, explores the inner and outer spaces of the man-against-machine perplex...
...presidential campaign ever quite achieves the ideal of a pure exercise in national enlightenment. Still, 1968's contest thus far falls alarmingly short of the ideal. By design or sheer ineptitude, the issues of Viet Nam, urban reconstruction and racial reconciliation are being clouded rather than clarified. The times call for a high order of statesmanship; yet Nixon comes on like an artful dodger and Humphrey like an artless bungler. Whether the two can shake off those images in the seven weeks before Election Day is becoming the key question of a disappointing campaign...
...people in that age, reason was the way the human mind--all human minds--naturally worked. In their opinion this natural working was indeed, as matters then stood, seriously impeded in the great majority of human beings by ignorance, superstition, preconceptions, errors, by bad laws and bad institutions--in short, by bad environment. But the capacity for reason was there . . . give it a good environment and it will flower as nature meant it to flower. --Age of Reason Reader...
...SHORT, there are many evils in the world today--one should do something about them...