Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opens with a newscast of President Kennedy's assassination. The lights come up inside a bar in Greenwich Village. One by one the characters enter and introduce themselves in monologue. A middle-aged Kennedy devotee speaks only of "Camelot" and Dallas; a veteran tries to make sense of his Vietnam experiences; a young activist traces her life through riots and causes; a homosexual actor laments the "the good old days" of the Village underground; a starlet-turned-prostitute recounts her fourteen years mourning Marilyn Monroe's suicide. The play continues in a series of monologues: paralyzed by depression and doubt...
KENNEDY'S CHILDREN LACKS tension, rhythm, and climax--in fact everything except actors. In Patrick's play, five excellent actors wage war with a disastrous script. They lose, but their attempts to portray real people are worth watching. Michael Sacks, as the tortured Vietnam veteran, creates vocabulary of tense gestures and hulking movements. Barbara Montgomery evokes well the mythology that enveloped the Kennedys, but Patrick ruins her best speech with a cheap shot--moved to tears, she starts to sing the theme from Camelot. Don Parker as the ex-drag queen has tried to capture the whining intonations...
...FIRST CASUALTY. From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker by PHILLIP KNIGHTLEY...
...some time the partners in this compact shrugged off accountability to their respective communities--perhaps with the simplistic kind of rationale offered by a source in Holyoke Center: "If this were the government of South Vietnam, let's say, we might have something to be ashamed about...
...about Harvard's white male ambience. And the University has also had an indirect role in political battles that could hardly be called liberal--from President A. Lawrence Lowell's calls for Sacco and Vanzetti's execution to Henry Kissinger's departure from the Government Department to oversee the Vietnam War. For all its eccentricity Harvard has never been greatly at odds with mainstream, old-line American capitalism. (cf. Ruling Class Theory...