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...about a love affair between an FBI agent and the daughter of a man he hounded to death; "a Victorian rock musical about Oscar Wilde"; and a semiadventure set in Tibet. For the stage, he and Glass hope to adapt Andre Malraux's novel of revolutionary China in the 1920s, Man's Fate, and Hwang is also writing what he opaquely terms a "multicultural farce...
...revolution at all. What we mean by revolution is a massive spontaneous event, and there was nothing of the sort in October. The true revolution was the February Revolution. The October Revolution does not even deserve the name revolution. It was a coup d'etat, and all through the 1920s the Bolsheviks themselves called it the "October coup." In the Soviet Union they consciously and artificially replaced the February Revolution with the October...
SOME literary buffs remember the 1920s as the strange season of triumph for American literature. Ernest Hemingway. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gertrude Stein--all American expatriates--wrote tales that captivated not only American readers, but also audiences worldwide. In that decade, William Faulkner published The Sound and the Fury, and Eugene O'Neill won the Pulitzer Prize in drama three times...
Some historians remember the 1920s as the decade of decadence, the age of Prohibition, when alcoholism became chic and terribly American. Flasks were all the rage, and organized crime controlled the liquor supply. And as Hemingway recalls, it was a time when "good writers were drinking writers...
...1920s the Soviet leadership talked of engaging in social engineering through education and propaganda to transform its feudal subjects into enlightened socialists -- a "Homo sovieticus" who would be compassionate and informed. Instead, these regimes found it easier to control their citizens by reinforcing their worst instincts, most of which derived from peasant attitudes...