Dec 22, 2009

The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window | The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window

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Sidney Brustein, a cynical, disillusioned intellectual living in a Greenwich Village apartment with his wife, Iris. An idealist in his youth, Sidney had been involved with all manner of causes and was active on various committees advocating social change. Now in his early thirties, he epitomizes the alienated white intellectual searching for meaning in his life. As the disappointed, disinterested dreamer, Sidney has withdrawn from social and political action to run a failed coffee house and, subsequently, to attempt running a community newspaper. As a...

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