Topic: Ray Drecker
AP News | 2009-09-30 20:17:04
Brother, Can You Spare an iPod? Entertainment provides escapism, catharsis in hard times
In hard times, entertainment either grinds it out with the rest of us, or it waltzes. During the Depression in the '30s, there were stories about the plight of the nation's unemployed, like John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," alongside the extravagant musicals of Fred ...
