Word: suburbias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
BULLET PARK, by John Cheever. In his usual setting of uncomfortably comfortable suburbia, Cheever stages the struggle of two men-one mild and monogamous, the other rootless and haunted-over the fate...
...revolution. And yet the university is one of the best possible bases from which sane radicals can expect to mount sizable political support in the U.S. Only the campus is ideally equipped to analyze or attack poverty and pollution, to appeal to the ghetto as well as suburbia. How it should so use those skills is an open question, but if radicals seriously hope to change society, destroying universities is sheer lunacy. The trouble is, of course, that their goal is less reform than romance?coming alive in action. At the Sorbonne last year, one rebel happily chalked...
...Your excellent article on the strained relations between blacks and Jews [Jan. 31] forcefully points out a problem, of which many Jews in suburbia are either unaware or have not concerned themselves. This cancer, however, has now reached epidemic proportions, and it is time for positive constructive action from Jews and blacks to cure this sickness...
...even if Albee treats it too literally and tediously. When the play turns from sociological truisms to comic treatment of the manners of society, Albee is back in his own milieu. Richard Kerry's bland, but tasteful, set locates the action inescapably in a living room in modern suburbia -- right down to the inevitable green velveteen furniture. Richard (Robert Fox-worth) and Jenny (Jane Cronin) act like they just stepped out of a Raleigh commercial. In actuality, they are the kind of people who smoke bad cigarettes only because they are so deeply in hock that they depend...
...spring holds less flamboyant promises, as well. John Cheever has finished Bullet Park, a chronicle of fathers and sons and the communications chasm in suburbia. Kurt Vonnegut has found a subject that will support any amount of black humor and white rage, fire-bombing of Dresden-which he lived through as a war prisoner. In Pictures of Fidelman, Bernard Malamud writes of an impoverished painter who outwits a gang of forgers who force him to turn out a new Titian. From Paris comes The Fruits of Winter, the new Prix Goncourt winner that was the occasion for enough scheming...