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...Lincoln Brigade, it presents a history of America on film unavailable in any other medium. Seeing Red is a comprehensive study of American Communists that allows one to meet the ideology of communism through the once youthful eyes of those who saw an America below their standards and strove to do something about...

Author: By Melanie Moses, | Title: A Backward Glance | 4/6/1984 | See Source »

...audacity of this Guthrie offering brings honor to the U.S. theater. It also reminds us of what an intrepid culture hero Henrik Ibsen was. He strove mightily against the confines of a narrow provincial society to free the spirit and light up the mind. All of his plays are the sounds of chains snapping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In the Realm of the Trolls | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...unfortunately, with Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. Though Miller strove for Greek myth, his play is more of a tabloid melodrama. A simple stevedore named Eddie (Tony Lo Bianco) in Red Hook, Brooklyn, allows two of his wife's Sicilian relatives, illegally smuggled into the U.S., to live in his home. The younger one, Rodolpho (James Hayden), falls in love with Eddie's orphaned niece, Catherine (Saundra Santiago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Blind Passion | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...German parliamentary elections will be held on March 6 (see box), and the arms-control issue may swing the outcome. The election results, in turn, could determine whether the American missile deployment proceeds on schedule, not only in West Germany but in the other NATO countries as well. Gromyko strove to be dovish in Bonn, though he did drop an occasional note of menace. "We cannot ignore the fact," he warned, "that the Federal Republic is the only state due for deployment of Pershing II rockets, which can reach strategic targets deep in the Soviet Union in a few minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Nuclear Poker | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...alienation generally referred to as "marginality." Though that analysis has been used for decades to explain Jews' affinity for progressive politics in this country, as well as in Europe. Rothman and Lichter customize the proposition by divining from their charts and graphs that this particular group of Jews subconsciously strove to destroy the essentially "Christian institutions which helped keep them on the "margin" of American society. Compounding this psychological maelstrom, say the authors, was a tendency toward authoritarianism within SDS. They depict the Jewish (male) activists as victims of savage domineering mother-weakling father complexes--a group of insecure intellectuals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Roots of Rage | 12/3/1982 | See Source »

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