Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Perfect Christian Response is a counterploy to rebel youths who suspect that the game may not be worth the candle. "If you're a Christian," asks the Rebel Youth, "how come you live in a $60,000 house, have two cars, a color television set, and a cleaning woman? Didn't Christ preach against materialism?" The solemn Perfect Christian Response: "Suppose everyone did sell his belongings. Do you honestly think that people of means would be attracted to such a shoddy, lower-class type of Christianity...
...They were beautiful children, completely out of control, sweet, active and savage as weasels." He is occasionally aphoristic: "Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable." His only persistent fault is that he frequently falls into the Perry Mason syndrome. To wind up a plot quickly, the top suspect is likely to say, "All right, I did it," and then babble the confession without which he would go free...
...values, as entirely worthless. He depicts the young people at the rock-and-roll club and the pot party as incapable of individual emotional reaction, responding only in groups to escapist stimuli and the newest hip symbols (the electric guitar handle). This damning of a culture en masse is suspect; in setting his hero against a background of complete sterility, Antonioni has taken the easy way out, avoiding the challenge of creating a more perceptive analysis of the generation with which he is dealing...
...hers. Right now, she says, her husband "is scribbling away, but I don't know at what." She declines to discuss The Homecoming or any other Pinter play with outsiders. What she does discuss with her husband is anybody's guess, although it is easy to suspect that their dialogue sounds like something out of a Pinter play. Vivien will ask a simple question, such as "Where shall I put the bookcases?" Whereupon Pinter, she says, "makes a long theatrical pause," and finally announces, "Against the wall." Their common preoccupation is their nine-year-old son Daniel...
...armed forces (I do); and indicting me further as a lackey of the "social welfare monopolicy--with its cop and spying attributes" that now proposed to force decent proletarian Negroes to live like the white bourgeoisie and to "torture" them with birth control. I had become a most suspect person indeed in the ranks of SNCC and CORE, and the Presidential initiative suffered accordingly...