Word: williamsburgs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outdoor amphitheater at Williamsburg, Va., Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence downstage left. In Boone, N.C., Daniel Boone stalks around a stage slightly larger than an elbow of the great Catawba River. And with annual punctuality and a sound like muslin ripping, gunshots in New Mexico signal The Last Escape of Billy the Kid. Mixing fact, fiction, sentiment and gunpowder, the U.S.'s grandiose, often grandiloquent summer pageant plays provide a basic drive-in course in history for more than 5,000,000 people a year, some of whom are surprised to learn that the first De Soto...
THREE NOVELS by Daniel Fuchs: SUMMER IN WILLIAMSBURG (380 pp.); HOMAGE TO BLENHOLT (301 pp.); LOW COMPANY (314 pp.)-Basic Books...
...Clown & Sandwich Boards. Two of the books deal with life in Williamsburg, a colony of poor ultra-Orthodox Jews in a bulge of Brooklyn just opposite Manhattan's Lower East Side. Summer in Williamsburg is a multistranded account of life in a slum street, replete with greed, brutality and love. It focuses on Philip Hayman, an aspiring young writer who is ready for his last year in college and ready, too, for romantic agony. The book is built on the familiar cross-section pattern, and to some degree succumbs to the risks of that method: the parts...
...others: the Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum and the Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of the so-called Lubavitcher sect, both established in Brooklyn's Williamsburg section...
...Williamsburg...