Superior Women
“That distant and to most people, including the President, alien conflict pervaded his mind, his conversation—and his plays. Previously he had written dramas that were described as “psychological,” or “contemporary,” having to do with love and sex, marriage and divorce, an occasional violent death, a murder—and so far his plays had been immensely successful. The few bad reviews, the dismissals of Adam as “melodramatic,” “sensation-seeking,” or, routinely, “pornographic,” did nothing to hurt Adam at the box office—any more than did his very public, fairly frequent brawls in bars, his hinted-at liaisons with young actresses and “models.”
But especially after President Johnson’s Tonkin Resolution, Adam’s style and mode entirely changed. He wrote a series of one-act plays that were all either overtly or sometimes indirectly about the war. Even when the ostensible subject was a soccer match in Australia, he was writing and preaching against the war.
These one-acts were produced off-Broadway..., and were variously received.MoreLess
But especially after President Johnson’s Tonkin Resolution, Adam’s style and mode entirely changed. He wrote a series of one-act plays that were all either overtly or sometimes indirectly about the war. Even when the ostensible subject was a soccer match in Australia, he was writing and preaching against the war.
These one-acts were produced off-Broadway..., and were variously received.MoreLess
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