Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turning the pioneers' trading posts into towns, and the towns into cities, worked the same strain deeper into the American character. Fast-buck operators flourished, the rapid turnover and the quick profit were the dreams of many a businessman. But the more typical pattern for 19th century business and industry was the narrowed eye with the long view, the reinvested profit, the McGuffey and Horatio Alger mottoes on the mind...
...after souls with a butterfly net. The ubiquitous Arthur Friedman as narrator bounces in and out of the action, as does a chameleon chorus that appears as everything from peasants to sheep to a fluid landscape. Philip Heckscher, the soldier, is appropriately ingenuous but his voice often betrays uncomfortable strain. Jane Mushabac has choreographed the play. Her group dances have wit but become overly frantic when Lithgow's devil gets twitchingly carried away with himself. Mushabac gives a long puzzling, oriental dance to the Princess (Beverly Hirschfield) that slows Histoire's pace. The Princess bends her arms and legs...
...infect the world with "wars of national liberation." The Russian brand has graduated from the minor leagues of guerrilla warfare, and wields vast military and economic power in hopes of winning the world to Marxism through example. The Red states of Eastern Europe have developed a milder, more "relaxed" strain, one better suited to their lack of economic and military muscle. Fragmented by history and welded by ideology, they have arrived at an almost dialectical synthesis of the tensions tearing at them: nationalist, neutralist Communism...
...there are other factors contributing to Russia's low fertility. The terrific strain of its rapid socialization is partially responsible. Although party propoganda has always encouraged a high birth rate, the use of women in the work force and extended period of inadequate overcrowded housing have depressed the birth rate. In addition to these natural causes of a low rate of birth, there are, in fact, indications that a majority of the Soviet population favors birth control, either through conventional techniques or abortion. Heer believes the government legalized abortions in 1955 only because doctors were already handling a great many...
...around a good deal, ticker-taping a chatty alumnae newsletter across the screen like subtitles in a foreign movie, sometimes cutting from character to character as though he were taking an opinion poll. Linking political and social history to the girls' private affairs also creates momentary strain, since the audience cannot really profit much from learning that the German army has attacked Poland just after good ole Pokey (Mary-Robin Redd) delivers her second set of twins. Although The Group's McCarthyish airs are trivial as sociology, more dazzling than deep as drama, no sorority party in years...