Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tinted, ignorance-is-bliss tenor of that carefree era. There are the flappers doing their frenetic Charleston, the dastardly villains and wistful heroines of the silent screen. Soon a couple of European political upstarts make their appearance: A. Hitler and B. Mussolini. Moving through the Great Depression and World War II, the film traces the ever more sophisticated use of all communications forms-radio, candid camera, wireless photos, TV -to capture the substance and essence of the times...
...intensive coverage of the events in their area. Correspondent Burt Pines pursued the psychological aspects with doctors and chaplains at U.S. Army headquarters in Long Binh, while Stringer Harold Ellithorpe, a Viet Nam veteran, contributed the comments of Red Cross officials plus his own observations on brutality in the war. Correspondent Bob Anson, bucking stormy monsoon weather, flew to My Lai in central Viet Nam, viewed the rubble of the hamlet, and talked to survivors of the massacre. Clark, meanwhile, in addition to interviewing military officers, spent much time poring over captured documents detailing the elaborate terrorism apparatus maintained...
Some of the figures who peopled that world-of Paris in the Twenties, New York later in the Thirties, and World War II-have survived. and in grand fashion. Not Hemingway or Fitzgerald, not the exiles, but the Europeans. or those who wished they had been. Everyone knows about Henry Miller's life. about what Paris was for him. but it seems as if Anais Nin has voyaged towards the present with the same awareness that was her gift in recording the years before and during World War II. Engaged with the Surrealists while they were still a confused group...
...people are poor in spirit, low, mean, envious." Everywhere is the sense of chaos, of a suffocating cosmos. What is most remarkable about the Diary is its evocation of an age: Miller, Eugene O'Neill, the moribund Kenneth Patchen: they move like ghosts through the long years of the War. animated, prodded back into life in the pages of Nin's journal...
...stylish arguments which plagued that generation are talked out: Nin's temparament embraces Freud, despairs about America, succumbs to the disasters of World War II, and staves off the temptations of Marxism, even as she manages to repair her sensitivity. A remarkable scene in Caresse Crosby's Virginia house involves Dali, Henry Miller, and Nin shouting confusedly at the dinner table; another describes the exhaustion of New York literary society, drunken parties, jazz. The endeavor to write almost seems to subside before the need to simply go on. Even though she was eventually driven to publish her own works...