V-2nd - 2: Part II - questions, comments?

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Fri Jul 2 07:20:56 CDT 2010


> I guess what's interesting about this passage is that he questions
> this division - by showing disdain for someone who doesn't...
> saying that belonging to  a Bohemian sector or having private artistic
> strivings isn't enough (this much is clearly stated),
> and that being part of a society engaging in colonialism is to share
> guilt that is not so easily offset (this is interpolation on my part)

Of course, the cold war had theaters & theatres; on the domestic
front, the cold war in the US left many casualties--workers,
educators, clergy, artists, writers, actors, young promising minds who
were sucked into the corporate machine and made into, to use Henry
Adams's term, "Manakins." The impact of the domestic theater & theatre
of the cold war on the nation's intellectual, political, and economic
life are profound and continue to have their effects. ANd, nowhere is
this truer than in Labor & Education. This, it seems to me, is where P
heads with his major works after V..



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