Word: weaknessness
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Actually, the greatest risk faced by the U.S. in Europe today is the disarray among its Atlantic allies. Recession is rampant; Communism is making dangerous advances in Portugal, Italy and elsewhere. By no means can all of this be blamed on the Soviet Union. The chief fault is the internal...
Joseph Kraft was the funniest, frantic in his role as the guardian of the nation's self-image. In a column called "Nashville, the motion picture, tries--but fails--to tell what's wrong with America," Kraft points out the danger of trying to sum up the country. Indeed, "the...
The weakness, it turns out, is that in Nashville the characters don't have real choices to make, they are trapped in a society without decisive options. This is a view of America "in a pig's eye," he says. In fact, the Nashvilleans represent "a tiny segment of" American...
The central relationship in the play is a vaguely sexual one between the strong, cruel father. Marcus, and his even stronger, even crueler daughter, Regina--who twenty years later will have taken over his role as the major destructive force in the family. Perhaps Hellman was thinking of her own...
The Soviet Union is an earnest, intensely conservative society, convinced of the virtues of industrial growth. There are so many shortages, so much catching up to be done, that advocacy of zero growth would be heresy. Freedom is daily defined as freedom from want, and democracy is seen in terms...