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...youngsters here are all vividly real -- except for rather smug Maggie, who is the pivot. Her retorts run along the lines of "What is it like to be like you?" to the bitchy Monica. When downcast, Maggie does not lash out but retreats to her room, where yet another chapter ends with quiet tears or staring at the ceiling. She is someone waiting to be -- a writer is hinted, maybe even a columnist. Quindlen's flaw is one of meticulousness: the smart energy of her journalist's voice is missing. But surely she knows that good novels have been written...
However, Cantor disappoints the reader by digressing into lengthy historical and cultural examples to prove this point. By the time he reminds the reader of his original premise, we have lost the main idea. For example, he devotes the better part of a chapter to recapitulating the notions he put down in Krazy Kat, one of his previous works. While the reader floats in jargon and bygone culture, he misses the author's central concern, the lack of any stimulating media...
N.A.S. members are manning the intellectual barricades almost everywhere these days. At the University of Texas at Austin, chapter adherents successfully challenged a proposal to focus English 306, a required freshman writing course, on problems of race and gender. They argued that the change would turn the class into a political-indoctrination course. At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the N.A.S. chapter has criticized a plan to hire more minority professors, contending that it would set up the academic equivalent of a patronage system. Christina Hoff Sommers, an associate professor of philosophy at Clark University, refused to sign...
When the Southern Christian Leadership Conference failed to persuade the Dallas city council to stop opposing a plan for increased minority representation, the local chapter resorted to tougher methods: it mounted a boycott last week to deter tourists and conventions from coming to the city. The strategy, though hardly new, is gaining in popularity. Increasingly, national groups and associations have sought to punish and pressure cities by moving their conventions and meetings elsewhere...
...another concession, Washington will allow a second British carrier, most likely Virgin Atlantic Airways, to fly from Heathrow to the U.S. Virgin reacted to this news by slashing all its transatlantic fares 15%. For its part, Pan Am gets to stay in business, at least for now. Already in Chapter 11 proceedings, the carrier might have been grounded without the cash that will enable it to meet a $100 million debt payment...