Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Five days later, the growers announced that the Western Conference of Teamsters would represent lettuce pickers. The farmworkers, who had not been consulted by either the growers or the Teamsters, heard of the decision only through the press...
...QUIET PLACE in the Country opens in promisingly non-narrative fashion, throwing movie credits and Baroque paintings and Francis Bacon's meaty compositions together in a confusion of people, images, anguish, sex, written words, emotions-in a word, modern western culture. In part this opening credits sequence challenges (in a laughable sort of way) the truth of a film's assertions: "color by Technicolor" is followed by a picture certainly painted in FrancisBaconColor (here, of course, it is in Technicolor); "paintings by Jim Dine" precedes the work of an Italian several centuries dead. More importantly, the sequence creates a continuum...
...Western industry long ago disproved Karl Marx's prediction that the workingman would become ever poorer in a capitalistic state. But it has yet to prove wrong his less well remembered forecast that workers would become progressively more alienated from their jobs. The young people now entering the factories present an opportunity for employers to end that alienation. Blue collar youngsters are as eager as the college students to become involved and to genuinely earn the pay and leisure that they seek. Essentially it is the task of management to give them that chance. As it is, the alienation...
...Lycurgus, the famous lawgiver who recast the constitution of Sparta in a fierce authoritarian mold. Now Agathon is a drunken old bum. In between, he has fought a battle disguised as a woman, seduced and married the daughter of an archon, helped the Ionian philosophers invent humanism, rationalism and Western civilization, betrayed his best friend to the Athenian FBI, and made love to the wives of all his friends. By teaching his greatest love, a Helot woman, to read and write and think politically, he has set events in motion that end in a blaze of atrocity and civil...
This may seem more than enough to fit into a middling-short novel. But the author, in addition, sets out on a number of symbolic quests. At times Agathon, whose name in Greek means the Good, stands for the whole Western tradition of humane tolerance, now threatened by the twin fanaticisms of repression and revolution. At others, he is some kind of primordial natural force, a witness to agelong woe and fatality. At still others, when what he calls facticity catches up with him, Agathon is just a slobbish old lecher smelling of onions. In this guise he represents...