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...suggested: 1984 is really 1948. Mondale is Harry Truman, with a handsome, vindictive grin, flourishing the headline of the Chicago Daily Tribune. Conjuring doubts to keep the pundits honest. The great hyperkinetic exercise had come to its final stage, like the jitterbugging burst at the end of a '30s dance marathon...
...include Irving Howe's A Margin of Hope and William Barrett's The Truants: Adventures Among the Intellectuals. They were, in Critic Harold Rosenberg's memorable phrase, "the herd of independent minds," part of the theory class that dominated political and cultural debate from the '30s through the '50s. Although deaths, dispersions and change have greatly reduced the group's influence, its value should not be underestimated. Ideas, like less durable products, reach the public through a network of production and distribution. Raw materials are imported and fabricated by artists and scholars. The newest...
Abel and the friends he cites in this amiably prescriptive work were major importers of mandarin goods. Coming of age in the '20s and '30s, these apprentice high brows were influenced by two intoxicating concepts from Europe: the power of the subconscious as expressed through psychoanalysis, and the possibilities for political change as revealed by Marxism...
...Played by Jim Kaufman, he is the very model of an alcoholic crud. Hortensio as done by director McDonough becomes a pseudo Mafioso a proto-Don Corleone complete with big blue suit and loud tie, Lucentio (Kevin Fennessy) and Bianca (Marianne Adams) are the very models of squeaky clean 30s youth...
...dinner with a group of typical yuppies, nervously ambitious professionals in their late 20s-but there were no servants. "Wearing black tie and cooking your own dinner is like make-believe," says Hamilton. "It's like the whole nation is trying to reinvent the 1930s, including '30s manners and mannerisms." Over brandy and cigars the host complained that his "greatest problem was when his father came by on his motorcycle with his latest old lady...