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Playwriting
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In truth, there was no systematic policy except that which engaged the various personalities that grew around the original nucleus assembled by George Devine and Tony Richardson. Most of these were, in the mild climate of the time, left of centre, though they would now be regarded as soft-meringue-liberals by the drowsy commissars who have long since taken over.
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― Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise
― Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise
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As a youth I enjoyed 鈥� indeed, like most of my contemporaries, revered 鈥� the agitprop plays of Brecht, and his indictments of Capitalism. It later occurred to me that his plays were copyrighted, and that he, like I, was living through the operations of that same free market. His protestations were not borne out by his actions, neither could they be. Why, then, did he profess Communism? Because it sold. The public鈥檚 endorsement of his plays kept him alive; as Marx was kept alive by the fortune En
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― The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
― The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
