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fifties: rosy as in pink to red
The fifties. It’s somewhat of a modern myth; that special time when joys were allegedly unsullied, the problems were happy problems, and when trust and tranquility prevailed in the land… …The dread of Communism also created a nationwide climate of … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddy Hawk and his Buddies, Dean Acheson, HUAC hearings, Jack Holden & Frances Kay, Jimmie Driftwood, John Carter Vincent, Joseph Mccarthy, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, McCarthy era blacklist and witch hunts, Owen J. Lattimore, Philip Jessup, Senator Joseph A. McCarthy, senator joseph mccarthy, The Kavaliers Get that Communist Joe
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too long in exile: worn out welcome
Brecht in exile. He wrote movie scripts and tried to sell them but, except for his scenario for Hangmen Also Die, Brecht sold nothing. He seems to have persistently missed the fact that a great many of the ideas he … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged anselm kiefer, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, charles laughton, Charlie Chaplin, clifford odets, Donald Kuspit, elizabeth hauptmann, Fritz Lang, georg baselitz, HUAC hearings, jaroslav hacek, John Fuegi, lotte lenya, Peter Lorre
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