Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laos, Cuba, Africa continue to boil. Mobs riot in Seoul, Black Muslims rally in Chicago, TV is bad, even baseball declines. Everywhere the have-nots are vocal about their anxiety to have, and the haves are doubly anxious to hang on to what they have. Is it any wonder that the comfortable U.S. is afflicted by fear of the unknown future...
...second problem in Seeger's struggle with the Congress was unwittingly outlined by Prosecutor Younger in his criticism of the defense attorney's "Alice-in-Wonderland logic." This same term may paradoxically be employed to describe the HUAC's Alice-like wonder at the folk singer's material. How could the same Peter Seeger who recognized the evils of war in popularizing "Down By the Riverside" recognize a similar evil in the men starving during the depression of the 30's while "The banks are made of marble?" For a convincing performer there is no such entity as a polite...
...distorted. It depicts, after all, a world that admits no happiness, no understanding, no love; it may be a memorable universe, but it is also an over-simplified one. The Nephew seems to be a step toward Purdy's creation of a more balanced and whole world-picture. I wonder, though, if any recent writer has either strived for or attained such a Weltanschauung. And, if such there be, I wonder if it has really helped him as a writer...
True enough, the work was a bit difficult to describe; in an introduction to the show's catalogue. Novelist James Jones expressed his own frustration with his artist friend. "We've talked for hours, and sometimes I wonder what the hell he is talking about. But we still yell at each other and try to get across." To a growing following, especially in Europe, Paul Jenkins has been getting across very well indeed...
...wonder the King wanted to call it quits. The mob of Paris forced him from his Byzantine cocoon of ceremony at Versailles to rule in Paris. They wanted bread. He promised them bread. As for the mob who butchered his guards and jostled his coach all the way to Paris, they hailed his generosity, "Long live the baker!" and Queen Marie Antoinette was saluted as "the baker's wife." It was time to go. In this whole bewildering montage of scenes, it is on the confused King-and all the confusing attitudes held toward him-that the mind focuses...