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"Our Town" and Our Universe

"Our Town" and Our Universe Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this filmThis film introduces one of John Cheever's favorite themes, the American male's fear of losing his identity. Frustrated at the onset of age, middle-aged executive Cash Bentley attempts to recapture the glories of his college years and his athletic prowess by hurdling the living room furniture. Even a broken leg doesn't serve as a warning ... the moment it is healed hs back to jumping hurdles. His refusal to grow old takes a pathetic turn and the ending is a shocker.
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"Our Town" and Our Universe Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film

This film introduces one of John Cheever's favorite themes, the American male's fear of losing his identity. Frustrated at the onset of age, middle-aged executive Cash Bentley attempts to recapture the glories of his college years and his athletic prowess by hurdling the living room furniture. Even a broken leg doesn't serve as a warning ... the moment it is healed hs back to jumping hurdles. His refusal to grow old takes a pathetic turn and the ending is a shocker.

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  5. Hamlet: What Happens in Hamlet 1959
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  7. Oedipus Rex: Man and God 1959
  8. Oedipus Rex: The Recovery of Oedipus 1959
  9. Our Town and Ourselves 1959
  10. The Theatre: One of the Humanities 1959
  11. Aristotle's Ethics -- Book I: The theory of happiness. 1962
  12. Art: What Is It? Why Is It? 1962
  13. Plato's apology : the life and teachings of Socrates 1962
  14. The Novel: Early Victorian England and Charles Dickens 1962
  15. The Novel: What It Is, What It's About, What It Does 1962
  16. Emperor and Slave--The Philosophy of Roman Stoicism 1964
  17. Macbeth, Part 1: Politics of Power 1964
  18. Macbeth, Part 2: The Themes of Macbeth 1964
  19. Macbeth, Part 3: The Secret'st Man 1964
  20. Huckleberry Finn: Huckleberry Finn and the American Experience 1965
  21. Huckleberry Finn: The Art of Huckleberry Finn 1965
  22. The Odyssey, Part 1: Structure of the Epic 1965
  23. The Odyssey, Part 3: The Central Themes 1965
  24. The Louvre: A Golden Prison 1966
  25. A doll's house by Henrik Ibsen : part 2, Ibsen's themes 1967

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