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...lose the unique meanings of places when we lose the buildings that define them. The book's linked photos and text demonstrate remarkably effectively how physical structure is social structure, how the framework that holds an activity reflects and shapes it. The analysis speaks so directly to personal experience that it's hard to read straight through Forgotten America; I began to mentally illustrate how the form of a building conveys its meaning with my own experiences--what it signifies that Mather House is a fortress on the outskirts of Harvard's enclave, that Leverett House closely resembles a Holiday...
...soon join the vast majority of nations in signing the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States, and resolve to use its enormous strength to root out the poverty of millions of people. The future of this great nation is tied to the future of humanity within a framework of interdependence. The alternative is to let economic forces follow their course toward the concentration of the world's wealth in a few industrial centers, while the vast majority of peoples, far from following a path toward development, begin a process of involution...
Viewed in retrospect, the weakness of an if-then argument directly linking social, economic, and political problems with specific programs designed to alleviate them is glaringly apparent. The if-then framework oversimplifies the issue: it sets up a false dichotomy and thereby excludes alternative programs from consideration. Yet in the heat of political campaigns such specious reasoning is surprisingly effective; millions of Americans who had never heard of, much less read, the Humphrey-Hawkins bill were persuaded to accept it as a litmus test of a candidate's commitment to full employment...
...motion, too. The Tanz-Forum Koln, a modern dance company from Cologne, Germany, exemplified the insidious trend at the Loeb this weekend. They didn't dance so much as they intellectualized movement. What hung in the air weren't bodies, or gestures, but unformulated notions of a conceptual framework. One left questioning (what was it all about?), mentally provoked, but sensually frustrated...
Fortunately, Bourjaily has chosen a framework loose and capacious enough to absorb the bad with the good. And his virtues have never been on better display. He can capture American speech and cage it on the page without loss of vitality. His sympathies are generous; his descriptions of the nation's heartland landscapes throb with passion. Because its parts are greater than the sum of its whole, Now Playing at Canterbury will disappoint those who are still searching for that Loch Ness monster of the literary swim, the Great American Novel...