Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RIVERS JR. Assistant Professor of English University of Virginia Charlottesville...
...Virginia Beach...
...cutting edge of the future"-a cautionary model of what the U.S. might become if and when it finally degenerates into a transcontinental landscape of neon, plastic, and religious eccentricity. Californians tend to look back the other way, over their shoulders, with a snobbery of heritage worthy of Cavalier Virginia or Puritan New England. To be able to connect with grandfathers and great-grandfathers who had a place in the state's earlier development gives a select few of them some sort of hedge against the banality of tract house and freeway...
...afraid of moving into the White House. It was the Pop. "Old Joe Kennedy is as big a crook as we've got anywhere in this country, and I don't like it that he bought his son the nomination for the presidency. He bought West Virginia. I don't know how much it cost him; he's a tightfisted old son of a bitch; so he didn't pay any more than he had to. But he bought West Virginia, and that's how his boy won the primary over Humphrey...
...brief and highly incomplete roster of Western drama in which this struggle, or some variation of it, is powerfully present: Medea, Hedda Gabler, Dance of Death, The Father, Strange Interlude, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Walts of the Toreadors, The Homecoming, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...