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...drift dreamily along in the illusion that the society still belongs to them. In important ways, it does, of course. But out across the city grids lie Koreatown and Chinatown; and Watts, for so long a black enclave, is changing into a barrio. Up north on the Berkeley campus, Sproul plaza has a line of desks arrayed for the recruitment of Armenian students, South Asian students, Japanese-American students, Vietnamese students, Thai students, multicultural gay and lesbian students, Korean-American students, Native American students...
...wedded to the misconception that a glorious autumn must be followed by a dark and dreary winter. There are those, nurtured on another coast, who believe nothing great can be accomplished where palm trees grow outdoors. The technical innovations in electronics and biotechnology begotten by labs at Stanford and Berkeley, not to mention the invention of the Jefferson Airplane, put the lie to such wrongheaded thinking. Important things do happen here...
...mostly opaque plastic) figurines from the Chinese, and the vineyards from northern Italy. There's no homegrown movie business; in fact the town has missed the video age, focused instead on grainy foreign films, which seem to be unreeling in every theater. Although the smug intelligentsia of Stanford and Berkeley blanch at the mention of her name, the area's best-selling author is Danielle Steel. To be sure, Los Angeles is no stranger to mass-market novelists, but that kind of pedestrian vulgarity is increasingly overwhelmed by the energy, quality and variety of the town's truly provocative attractions...
...insist that the city's unspeakable degenerates (cigarette smokers) ask permission before they light up outside. While the city drifts, the board of supervisors issues wacky foreign policy statements. During the gulf war, the board declared the town a nuclear-free haven for draft dodgers. Across the bay in Berkeley it's even daffier: along with Fidel Castro, the city council is all that is left of the communist elite...
...every case of interethnic conflict one can cite a case of cooperation. Unlike school boards in San Francisco and Berkeley, the Oakland school board rejected Houghton Mifflin textbooks that it considered racist and sexist. Though the local press and the New York Times presented the textbook opponents as raving, politically correct Afrocentrics, one of the most eloquent speeches opposing the textbook adoption was made by a Chinese American...