Word: zeitgeist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production to "postpone" its opening. But once Orson Welles took it to Broadway, The Cradle had no trouble finding an audience. For if brash and biased, Marc Blitzstein's "play in music" about Steeltown's big bad boss, cringing sycophants and exulting strikers had zip and the Zeitgeist in its favor. It also had a good deal of theatrical novelty: a sceneryless stage that antedated Our Town's; Composer Blitzstein himself at the piano and, now & then, part of the play...
...They use one of the rangiest and most microscopically exact vocabularies in modern letters-a vocabulary drawn entirely from those ancient, current and emergent clichés of which Flaubert and Joyce were both collectors and which are as diagnostic of a civilization as any ten theses on the Zeitgeist, and a thousand times as entertaining...
...rabbi, in opposing the Christmas-Jew, may be opposing not him but a vast tide of psychic coercion, a veritable Zeitgeist, that flows through him and that renders all pleading and thundering . . . futile...