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DELBANCO IS a learned and lively storyteller, revealing Channing's hopes and fears about his personal life, nature, history, language, slavery, and romanticism. These topics provide the framework for his book. The author's analysis of Channing and the slavery issue is the most provocative. He focuses on Channing's well-known 1842 document. The Duty of the Free States, and encourages us to read it "as one among those mid-century expressions of alarm, even despair, at the unsatisfying choice that America now offered between a cheapened communitarian ideal and the grandiose self." Channing, a man who had believed...
...often is, enforcing codes of conduct that society values. But morality cannot, and should not, be legislated where no consensus exists-and that is surely the case with abortion. Americans fashioned a more perfect union specifically to allow conflicts of conscience to coexist within a framework of individual rights. In cases where there is no agreement, it allows for an equation where there is an agreement to disagree. For that reason, the pro-choice advocates, who are willing to leave abortion decisions to individuals, are more in tune with the spirit of a pluralistic society than the pro-life coalition...
...howlingly funny to ignorami like us, are deadly serious concerns to psychologists and linguists. Victoria Fromkin of the linguistics department at U.C.L.A. regards slips of the tongue as clues to how the brain stores and articulates language. She believes that thought is placed by the brain into a grammatical framework before it is expressed-this in spite of the fact that she works with college students. A grammatical framework was part of Walter Annenberg's trouble when, as the newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Britain, he was asked by the Queen how he was settling in to his London...
...American writing from Reconstruction to the present, a remarkably consistent picture of black America, of America itself, springs to life. The mythology of that literature is a historical fact, the nation's worst-slavery. Besides the moral damage that slavery did the nation, it also created a cultural framework at once so distorted and solid that we live within it still...
WARD HAS OBVIOUSLY TRIED to highlight the relations and motivations of a people acting within a framework of terror and bloodshed without concentrating on that terror itself. However the absence of vivid oppression not only devalues the pivotal motives of the revolutionaries, but also perhaps overemphasizes their conflict with the church and obscures the injustices which drove them into opposition. With the Guardia to catalyse and focus the people's anger it is hard to appreciate the bonds between the people and the revolutionaries they support...