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...century has given Jim the additional consciousness that the deep-seated American reverence for mechanical power in itself is one of the causes which have led to a society in which machines are so complicated that they baffle most people. Jim's work evokes the parallel between an ordinary twentieth-century man's astonishment in the face of mysteries like lasars. He is gently satirizing an America foolish enough to long for the good old days of the last century--the very times in which the seeds of its own most pressing problems were sown. And at the same time...
...reappraisal of The Senator Joseph McCarthy Affair," which gives us cause for hope; to underline the point, he subtitles it, "A Story Without a Hero." But if you thought that this dispassionate study would strip away the polemics and reveal the historical significance of the political turnaround in mid-twentieth century America, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. Thomas fell into the onion trap; he was so busy stripping away he forgot to leave anything over; and his book, to switch vegetables, has all the force of a squeezed lemon...
Bullins wrote The Reluctant Rapist over the past ten years in between working on the most extraordinary project any American playwright has ever undertaken, a series of 20 full-length plays on the black experience in America that Bullins calls his "Twentieth Century Cycle." Comparing the five plays in the cycle already completed (In the Wine Time, In New England Winter, The Duplex, The Fabulous Miss Marie, and Home Boy) with The Reluctant Rapist it becomes painfully clear that there is no transitive law of genius between playwrights and novelists...
Coming to a climax at the end of his reading from Book III, Fitzgerald suddenly looked up, slightly dazed, moved by the inspiration of the epic, and seemingly surprised to find himself in the twentieth century. He was welcomed back by the enthusiastic applause of his audience, and clasped his hands over his head in the excitement of victory. Clearly, Fitzgerald is ready for another eight years of labor...
Indeed, so automatic has presidential access to television become that most people take it for granted. But in Presidential Television, a Twentieth Century Fund Report published last week (Basic Books; $8.95), three authors argue that the tube has seriously tipped constitutional checks and balances in favor of the Executive Branch. Written by Newton Minow, FCC chairman in the Kennedy Administration, John Bartlow Martin, an author and a former Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, and Lee Mitchell, an attorney specializing in communications law, Presidential Television urges a thorough reform of broadcasting regulations before the President's "electronic throne" becomes...