Word: turned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems that in the past sixty years our culture has taken such a sharp turn that the problem in England and the United States lies in a re-interpretation of our own culture--Milton's milieu or earlier--a culture almost as foreign to us as the Greeks or Romans were to our literary fore-bearers...
Although he sets out, against this backround, to describe the "activist" programs which we must carry out ("Rarely has so much depended upon the turn we now take"), not until three pages before the end of the book does LBJ actually get there. Throughout, it is The Past which is important...
Thus the black cultural revolution is rapidly approaching a crisis. Inexorably becoming more nationalistic, it is almost certain to alienate the white support it is dependent upon. Black artists want to turn to the black community for their full support, but this would necessarily entail a reduction in the movement's momentum. The black community is struggling on too many fronts to concentrate all of its resources in the development of a black cultural consciousness (which, no matter how desirable, is not an immediate prospect...
Muriel Spark's novella was first published in America in The New Yorker. Mrs. Jay Allen's adaptation (of her own stage version) betrays its source at every turn. Its details are unfailingly accurate. The school is a chalk dust bowl; the staff is a frightened gaggle arranged in perfect pecking order; the girls throw themselves into adolescence as if they were breaking the sound barrier. But, as in much New Yorker fiction, while the parts promise a vision, the whole does not even provide a view...
...work with him, and Mike Madison and Jussi Helava have been helping out recently, along with Miss Ettling. Lindsay complains of problems in holding master electricians when he designs lights--these are the people who help set up lights and operate the control board during the show. ("They all turn out to be lighting designers the next week...