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A carregar... In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1964)por Heinar Kipphardt
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. God, I would love to see this staged. It's a very powerful dramatic presentation of Oppenheimer's security clearance process post-WW2. It would be interesting to re-read this in tandem with Tom Morton-Smith's "Oppenheimer" as a full stage depiction of the arc of Oppie's career from the 1930s to the 1950s. I'm glad I bought this on a whim from Bookshop based on its title alone. ( ) This play takes the transcript from the hearings on Oppenheimer's security clearance and creates a stage presence. As such, it has a lot of drama, but lacks a lot of what standard playgoers expect. The subjects dealt with are complex and timely even today, investigating the intersection of science and politics, and which would win in the battle over how science is to be used (I won't give away the ending; most of us know who won that battle, anyway). This case, at least according to the characters, will decide whether science will become a tool of government, business, and military interests, or whether it would remain independent. It is a play written during the period of time that the nuclear question was truly on everyone's mind, and not in the abstract fear of today, but the very visceral fear that led to duck-and-cover drills in grade schools. The author does a good job with the material, and one real strength is that he doesn't answer the questions he asks; he leaves them dangling in the air for the audience to chew over when they leave the theatre. That is the surest guarantee of writing a play that everyone will remember. Eine historische Begebenheit liegt diesem szenischen Bericht zu Grunde: der Fall Oppenheimer. Am 12. April 1954 begann in Washington die Untersuchung gegen den Physiker und langjährigen Leiter der amerikanischen Atomforschung J. Robert Oppenheimer. Der Untersuchungsausschuß, von der Atomenergiekommission der USA eingesetzt, sollte prüfen, ob sich der Wissenschaftler der Regierung seines Landes gegenüber loyal verhalten habe. Das drei Wochen währende Verhör, Beispiel und Ausdruck des Konflikts zwischen Individuum und Gesellschaft, Wissenschaft und Staat, zählt zu den denkwürdigen Ereignissen der Zeitgeschichte. Quelle: Amazon.de sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Kipphardt uses the facts taken from the published transcript to present some fundamental issues which face the world today--the conflict between the responsibility of the individual to his country and to humanity as a whole, the right of the patriot to express views at odds with those of his government without his loyalty being called into question. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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