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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proud, poverty-blighted Midlands coal-mining families like Lawrence's own; and all are variations on basic Lawrencian themes-the drunken father, the dominance of women, unrelenting intrafamily contests, and the devaluation of intimacy by privation. The plays are pure naturalism: the kitchen sink is never out of sight, and the weary labor of washing off the pit grime when the man comes home occurs in each of them. Yet, unlike the angry Osbornes and Weskers, Lawrence composes his homely details with the power of tragic necessity rather than the passion of protest...
Freudian Art. Considerably less well known than pop art's debt to Dada is the seminal influence exercised by the surrealists on U.S. abstract expressionism. The relationship has been obscured until now, partly by the abstract expressionists themselves, who kept their early surrealistic canvases out of sight. The confusion was compounded by the fact that the original surrealist manifesto of 1924 envisioned two different techniques for applying Freud's then radical theories...
...business caught on so fast that three more branches were opened within a year. Anxious to avoid the dreariness that afflicted so many other cafeterias, Morrison's employed waiters to carry the customer's tray to his table, also set most of its serving lines out of sight of the dining areas. The idea, then as now, was that cafeteria dining can be respectable, a notion advanced by the company's current advertising claim that "you might see even your boss at Morrison...
...clinking glasses and pleasant buzz at the French embassy party in Vientiane, Laos. That is, until U.S. Ambassador William H. Sullivan, 45, strolled up to a group of American pacifists, who had stopped long enough to wet their whistles before flying on to Hanoi. At the sight of Sullivan, U.C.L.A. Professor Franz Schurmann, 41, reelingly announced: "I'm a subversive." "I hope you enjoy your adolescent behavior," snapped the ambassador. "Say 'adolescent' again and I'll fight you!" roared Schurmann and put up his fists. It got no further, of course, as embassy aides and Novelist...
...provided hearty support with accurate playing from the strings, fine solos by flute and bassoon, and a frenetic percussion section. And when victory was clearly in sight, the enthusiastic woodwinds put down their instruments and joined in singing the crashing finale...