Community: On Pulling Together
Communities are about commitment,
not convenience, writes Christine Gorman, while our fragmented
lives make them more difficult to sustain... Caryle Murphy says
that our "destructive passion for assault must be exorcised"...
and newspaperman Bill Grueskin suggests one (daily) means for
pulling together.
Technology now enables us to work
from home, writes "Compleat Recluse" Corbin Gwaltney... The extra
hour saved by the microwave is typically spent not with the kids
or at a museum, observes Terence Monmaney... and Stephen Dixon
explains why he remains true to his Hermes
manual.
Imagination--not literality--is
intrinsic to literature, observes John Barth... In "Up Against
It," poet Eleanor Wilner writes of a wall, a searingly white
wall... Outside the United States, "No Smoking" is the exception
rather than the rule, Wolf Blitzer has found.
In Russia today, the modus vivendi
is, "If you want to survive, you better learn to wheel and deal,"
reports Jeff Lilley... JJ's Russian Restaurant is the setting for
Molly Peacock's poem, "Goodbye Hello in the East Village"...
America's ambivalence about pulling its oar in the U.N. makes the
world a more dangerous place, argues Randolph
Ryan.
They roiled and teemed... The park
was not big enough for all of them," writes Rosemary Mahoney, of
the many thousands of people--bicyclists, runners, skaters,
picnickers, panhandlers, Frisbee throwersÄshe encountered one
afternoon in Central Park.
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Search for Intelligent Life in
Late 20th Century
By Christine Gorman, MA '84
A Global Explosion of Populist
Violence
By Caryle Murphy, SAIS '87
The City Daily: Our Last Best
Hope?
By Bill Grueskin, SAIS '81
The Urban Checkerboard,
Etc.
Technology: At What Price, Progress?
Hallelujah, I'm a
Bum
By Corbin Gwaltney '43
Life in the Swirl
By Terence Monmaney, MA '83
Paean to the Hermes
Standard
By Stephen Dixon
The Eureka Factor,
Etc.
Culture: Toward Contemplation
Virtuality
By John Barth, '51, MA '52
Up Against It
By Eleanor Wilner, MA '64, PhD '73
Outside the U.S., Smoking Is
Still Hot
By Wolf Blitzer, SAIS '72
Drowned by Music,
Etc.
Sovereignty: All Bets Are Off
A Picture of
Russia
By Jeff Lilley, SAIS '91
Goodbye Hello in the East
Village
By Molly Peacock, MA '76
Invest Fully in the U.N., or Accept
Chaos
By Randolph Ryan
The Global Shopping Mall,
Etc.
Global Resources: Too Many People
Scenes from Central
Park
By Rosemary Mahoney, MA '85
"Environmental Refugees,"
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