Word: unbrokenness
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...breeding around and about the Midwest, a kind of metaphorical setting that catches America and chokes up a seed which somehow holds a whole country. They say that there is a place in Missouri somewhere, where you can stand looking west and know that there is nothing but solid unbroken wheat for a thousand miles. These fields are sparsely but evenly inhabited, just as they are among the corn to the north. Richard Nixon was one of the first to point out something special about the people here--that they are silent. Other things are strange and haunting...
...Will the Circle Be Unbroken--The Nitty Gritty Dirl Band, el al. (United Artists). Bill Mcl uin who manages. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, one of the first of the 60's mass market groups to turn to bluegrass for inspiration, decided he wanted to make a recording with all the Nashville greats he's admired all his life. The resulting three-record set contains probably the single most exciting collection of classic country songs ever recorded...
Since it is impossible to read all these books, shouldn't we divest ourselves of them? Why should the student, who no longer has the time to read, endure the silent indictments of those unbroken bindings, those laminated spines, whenever he enters his own room? After all, there is no obligation to be the possessor of things which have no use. Not until we learn that reading is an obsessive act, even a necessity, will we become at home in our libraries...
Cosmic Pater. By Act III, Adam and Eve have been expelled from the Garden of Eden and Miller gets to the point that he presumably wants to make. It concerns the slaying of Abel by Cain, seen as the harbinger of man's unbroken fratricide through all succeeding ages. In Miller's version, Lucifer incites Cain in the hope of establishing dominion over men on earth, comparable to God's rule in heaven. Thus man is in perpetual thrall to a power struggle between God and the Angel of Darkness, or to the conflicting forces of good...
...only redeeming virtue, the power of visual shock. Its ingredients are the same: scenes of destruction and decadence, of incredible decor, exaggerated sentimentality, twisted passions and a non-stop dialogue of references to the terrors and joys of artistic fervor. But by now, this melange of heavy drama and unbroken noise-making is as old as Hollywood's infant epics. The vulgar baroque that once amazed, is muted in The Savage Messiah and serves only to exacerbate the bankruptcy of Russell's vision. He projects his messiah pose as a ploy to forestall criticism altogether. It is understandable...