Word: cannot
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...introduction are such highly stylized claims as, "The sexual revolutionaries of the sixties and seventies were the truest of leaders. They made people realize that the future does not have to look like the past." The entire book is replete with sweeping claims about American society; one cannot read a chapter without a chuckle...
...tendency to make these claims reveals the book's flaw-Make Love, Not War is too ambitious. Allyn cannot hope to answer every claim about the sexual revolution, nor can he describe every movement. Yet he believes he can. The punishment for this inflated sense of purpose is these claims, too humorous to ishment for this inflated sense of purpose is these claims, too humorous to actually enliven the book. One especially tasty bit of stupidity reads, "American nudists had long been fighting their own actually enliven the book. One especially tasty bit of stupidity reads, "American nudists had long...
...from the way that violence is kept at the periphery of the play. Indeed, the horror of the central murders in The Ohio State Murders is so subtly presented it could almost be forgotten. But the horror of the world surrounding those murders is so pervasive that it cannot help but disturb...
...impossible to name, though a play like The Ohio State Murders makes it impossible to ignore. Ultimately, Stern and Kennedy were right to draw this most troubling layer of human cruelty out of an already troubling script-and to draw it out with such beautiful, stark imagery that we cannot help but watch in horrified awe. Although it is Alexander's children who are murdered in Kennedy's play, it is Alexander herself that the American educational system tries to kill though an unnameable suffocation. And lest we think America has moved beyond such quietly murderous systems of racism...
...always seem on the move, chugging aimlessly along into their automobiles, usually Plymouths, but sometimes Renaults. Schulze's world is effused with this odd combination of German sensibility and American kitsch. Why Schulze's characters prefer to drive around in Plymouths rather than Benzes is intriguing in that it cannot be a purely economic consideration. We soon begin to realize the tacit commentary that is being made. The Wall is down, but westernization is not restitution enough, leaving more wanderers than homesteaders. Indeed, Schulze's world is more bazaar than bizarre. But this is hardly to say that...