Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest issue by far has been question and protest about the quality and direction of life in the richest, most advanced nation on earth. TIME'S job has been not only to report on the rush of events, but to analyze their deeper meanings and perhaps suggest what can be done to ameliorate the conditions that divide Americans...
Niagara from a Faucet. Unless Osborne means to suggest that homosexuals are poor security risks (pace Joe McCarthy), the play is baffling. An entirely incredible epilogue links Redl to the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, to World War I and everything that followed-which is rather like getting Niagara Falls out of a leaky faucet...
Paralyzed by Inadequacy. This is where the play actually begins, and the events that follow have resonances of The Homecoming-though Irish Playwright Thomas Murphy's play was produced four years before Pinter's. The brothers make passes at Michael's wife and even suggest using his home as a whorehouse. Michael is faced down, raged at and humiliated by his father, who is a perfect blend of aging bull and undiminished blarney. Michael's wife urges him to stand up for his rights. But he is paralyzed by a nagging sense of masculine inadequacy...
...fish shapes will be banished from the company's advertising. Drivers of the 25,000 Coca-Cola trucks, a fleet that Coke officials claim is second in size only to that run by the U.S. Post Office, will be decked out in charcoal and beige uniforms that suggest a football referee improbably wearing a baseball batting helmet. They will carry bright red Coke order books...
Television does not suggest this. It gives us Eric Sevaried, that sallow Odin, reading one hundred sensible words as insurance against controversy, never mentioning that Chicago, or the capture of Hill 881 was an unconscionable waste of life. It gives us commercials of flagellating concupiscence so that, after twenty years of them, we begin to view the whole world as a commodity, the uncommitted and benighted as the greatest consumer product. As it crowds more harrowing specials into the week, we turn away with less and less hesitation. It is possible that if Jesus Christ had spoken only on television...