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Donne Undone
However much traditional standards are leveled in our late democratic society, American theater will persist in challenging putatively oppressive values and the figures who enforce them. So I concluded...
The Truth About Inherit the Wind
In the middle of the hot summer of 1925, the famous “Monkey Trial” took place in Dayton, Tennessee, a small town of about eighteen hundred people in the Cumberland...
The Last Temptation Reconsidered
When presidential candidate Bob Dole castigated the entertainment industry for excessive and graphic use of violence, it was only the latest salvo in a culture war that has been...
Legitimate Mothers
Contemporary feminism began some decades ago with what Betty Friedan called the “feminine mystique”-the notion that women had been trapped into thinking of full-time wife-and-mothering as their path to...
On the Death of Literature
The Death Of Literature by Alvin Kernan Yale University Press, 240 pages, $22.50 Those who began to study literature before the radicalization of the university in the 1970s learned...
