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...regards to Asian-Americans. The history of Asian-Americans is one of an oppressed minority. One need only recall the conditions of intense discrimination and cruelty under which they helped build the West, or the living conditions of many inner city Asians today to see this. Title VI, Chapter 60 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 recognized Asian-Americans as a minority group--but Harvard didn't. It was only after a contested struggle by Asian-American students on campus that minority status was granted them...
Computer intelligence is growing by leaps and bounds, with no natural limit in sight. But human evolution is a nearly finished chapter in the history of life. The human brain has not changed, at least in gross size, in the past 100,000 years, and while the organization of the brain may have improved in that period, the amount of information and wiring that can be crammed into a cranium of fixed size is limited...
...Huygen is not content to rest on subtlety and understatement, so he adds a final chapter to Gnomes that explicitly makes his point. In so doing he bludgeons us over the head with a simplistic sermon on "What We Should Learn From Gnomes." After reciting the familiar litany of human failings--wars, pollution, exploitation, violence, the gnome narrator concludes...
...greatest part of his book is devoted to explicating the theories of sociologists, anthropologists and psychologists. The general outlines of the rise and fall of anthropological evolutionary theories of the family and the empirical sociology of urbanization are clear, well-written and illustrated with historical examples. But the chapter on the development of personality theory and the psychoanalytic controversies of the '30s and '40s is far less transparent to the uninitiated. Occasionally, Lasch loses the thread of his argument as set out in the early chapters; at times he fails to preserve the connection between intellectual history and social history...
...dramatized neatly on Broadway when an effort to revive Hair fizzled dismally with critics and public alike, while Man of La Mancha, with all its improbable visions, came back successfully (to run alongside such other hits as the shamelessly treacly Annie and Neil Simon's latest domestic frolic, Chapter Two). Movie fans are in tune too: having rejoiced not long ago over a fable of apocalypse like Dr. Strangelove and a parable of triumphant evil like Easy Rider, they are today cheering over a heart-grabbing fable like Rocky and a simple-minded parable of triumphant good like Star...