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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That may or may not be so. Whatever he is up to, it is uncharacteristically solitary for a man to whom all the world was, quite literally, his stage. It is difficult to believe that there will not be some sort of second...
Vibrations. In fact, there is little chance of that, since the Agnews and the Senate and House leaders are among the least entertaining folks in Washington. They constitute a sort of vestigial Biplane Set, taking their social life at a less frenetic pace than the jet-setters of the capital's party-go-round. Society columns vibrate to the tempo of glittering embassy dinners, chic Georgetown cocktail parties and white-tie soirees at the White House-but few of Congress's leaders are there. Instead, unpretentious, homebody lives are the preference of the Agnews, the McCormacks, the Dirksens...
Adapting his own 1963 autobiographical novel about growing up as a black boy in the Kansas of the 1920s, Parks recollects the characters of his childhood as the sort of stereotypes that usually appear in elementary-school brotherhood pageants. Dad (Felix P. Nelson) is slow-witted, humble and loving and Mom (Estelle Evans) is a gentle, worldly-wise philosopher who works as a domestic. Newt (Kyle Johnson) is about as likely an adolescent hero as Andy Hardy, waking Mom up in the middle of the night and listening wide-eyed as she dispenses such homespun homilies as "This town...
...original novel was a reminiscence, not a protest, a souvenir of a simpler time when a quiet bitterness was as good as a riot and the most drastic sort of racial demonstration was trying to buy a Coke at the drugstore soda fountain. Parks is not yet sufficiently sophisticated as a dramatist to make such an unquestioning life completely credible to a contemporary audience. To be sure, there is one angry, rebellious black youth who stalks the community giving the sweaty white lawmen a mean time, but he is portrayed as a vicious psychotic who can easily be vanquished...
...Winesburg, Ohio. Rather it is soap opera, a sort of superserial in which the lovable characters are sometimes handled with such consummate affection by the author, with such descriptive refinement of feeling that it approaches art. Of course, there are those organ-tone poems about the seasons. Characters inexplicably appear and just as inexplicably disappear. Chapter after chapter goes absolutely nowhere. But the reader gets hooked nevertheless...