Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that some assault the impregnable Pentagon is evidence of a sadly impotent search for meaning, of disbelief in the U.S. political process, of something gone wrong in the U.S. pursuit of happiness-or, perhaps, of the Administration's inability to give large segments of American youth a meaningful vision...
While The Little Foxes is still stage-sturdy, its angle of vision is the leftism of the '30s, since it assumes that the root of all evil is economic. A 1939 audience would have understood the play as an attack on predatory capitalist morality. A 1967 audience is more likely to relish it as an indictment of greed, hate, and the Just for power at anytime, in any place...
...back home to himself, back into the smoke rings of his mind. The wind? The sea? Call it the unconscious. "I'm ready for to fade into my own parade." A pipeline laid deep to private magic swirling ships, subterranean homesick blues, dreams. to 115, Desolation Row, flickering vision lights of Johanna, Memphis mobile mind traps and all those psychic lowlands where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes...
...fictional modes which dominate his later writing. Blue City is an ultra-tough, gut-wrenching narrative of personal vengeance, distinguished by a flexible and convincing use of vernacular speech, a sound knowledge of the impact produced on a human body by objects of diverse shape and size, and a vision of American life in which obsessive violence is not a chance phenomenon but an invariable condition. The Three Roads, a thriller about an amnesiac's torturous investigation of a murder he may well have committed himself, establishes MacDonald's interest in detailed and accurate psychological observation, and his regard...
...participants with an implacable frenzy. Of his 14 novels, Far from the Madding Crowd, with its relatively happy ending, is probably the most adaptable to film-and, indeed, it went through two silent treatments. In this version, Screenwriter Frederic Raphael has managed to preserve the book's broad vision while clarifying its bucolic speech. His most valuable ally is Director John Schlesinger (Darling), who displays the best sense of Victorian time and place since David Lean in Great Expectations, alternating his stars with a brilliant cast of minor players who serve as a Greek chorus in tragicomic peasant roles...