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Every 15 or 20 years someone with a note pad and pencil arrives in Sauk Centre, Minn., and asks cosmic questions: How's it goin'? What's the mood? Whither America? These visitations have been going on since 1920, when a native son named Sinclair Lewis published a best-selling satire called Main Street about a town he dubbed Gopher Prairie, which no one ever seriously doubted was inspired by Sauk Centre. Gopher Prairie was drawn as smug, suspicious and stuck in its ways, and that was a liberating vision for a newly urban America about to plunge into...
...WHITHER MODERN theater? Since the advent of film, most of the material that would have appeared on or off Broadway is much more ably shown on the screen. The greatest modern playwrights have realized this, tailoring their work for maximum theatrical impact. The less-than-greatest playwrights still have not mastered that trick, and the quite a bit less-than greatest don't even realize the obsolescence of their plays. It is into that latter category that Hugh Whitemore falls; if most new plays were like the Broadway-bound pack of Lies the question would not be "Whither modern theater...
HOLY CROSS 28, YALE O-- Whither will the Elis be after this one ? Witherd, methinks...
...that they are the ones who seem to teach all of the courses, while "Harvard affiliated" apparently includes grad students and people who received degrees here. Illusion and reality; tenured Harvard superstar becomes BU assistant prof A.M. 110 is APSC s-120. Does art imitate life or transform it? Whither Veritas...
comes up that does not demand at least an effort to read the future. How long will the recession go on? Whither Central America? Will the energy crisis ever come back? Will space become a theater for military action? Society flourishes or languishes by guessing the drift of things. If it had guessed right about consumer trends a few years ago, the auto industry might not be in such a sorry state. But in that industry, as Chrysler's chairman Lee la-cocca put it, "you make a decision and then wait three years to get the stuff kicked...