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...Christmas used to be a very raucous outdoor celebration, in the English tradition. So much so that it was really condemned by a lot of religious figures, and banned in some of the states in the 18th and 19th century. What we've done to the holiday is to turn it into something you have to celebrate privately, in your home, in your family. You don't put on costumes as you might once have done, and go from door to door, and then dance in the public square. You stay indoors, among your family. But I'm always fascinated...
...Last year, I got a call on my cellphone while at a cocktail party. Shanghai ladies sipped champagne near me, while the men discussed the city's frenzied property market. Sun Xuede had just been released from jail, four years early. "Hello, English-language journalist," he said, using the name they often called me. "I am out of jail now." I told him I was very glad - and then didn't know what to say next. Filling the silence, Sun commented on the weather in his Shandong village. It was chilly, he said, but not as cold...
...telling him to get off the phone. Talking to me would only bring more trouble. Already, Yu had been jailed once and not been given the land usually apportioned to Qixia families when they have a child. Money was tight. But Yu kept talking. "I tell you, English-language journalist," he said, "I cannot accept what they have done to us. Even if if takes 10 years or 20 years, I will keep fighting...
...which sits right outside the main U.S. base in Ramadi. Sittar makes sure his visitors are never without tea or a cigarette as he holds forth, talking about everything from guns to Isaac Newton. In a litany of the good and bad contributions of Western civilization, Sittar cites the English scientist ("smart" but "lazy") as one of the positive contributors; Hitler, he said, was unmitigatedly...
...literacy, it unfortunately did so in a spirit of pragmatism and anti-intellectualism. The Task Force’s underlying rationale for general education can be summed up in three words: real-world citizenship. Perhaps reflecting the pragmatic worldview of the task force co-chair and Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, they have taken the focus off of academics and directed it instead towards real-life application and civic duty...