Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...haven't been home for nearly a month now. Much to my surprise, I have developed some of the sharp-eyed empathy with the city that used to fascinate me because it was so alien. When I walk down the street, instead of looking at the sky, at the weather, at the moon, I look into the cars to deduce their owners, notice whether shop front displays have changed, anticipate the queues for broken escalators to the Victoria Line. Some days, walking home from work, I feel a self-contained elation, holding myself aloof and feeling bold; shouldering past...
Armed with only a fifth-grade education and an irrevocable desire never to have to clean up after white people, Holiday beat the odds. Instead of becoming a domestic like her mother and so many other black women did to survive, she became one of the world's most influential and unparalled jazz artists...
...taint of racial prejudice. In the light of the Stuart case and the shuttle bus incident involving two Harvard students, I hope that America, including the members of the Harvard community, will conduct some serious self-reflection. And that whites will hesitate, question and thoroughly analyze a situation instead of immediately accusing a Black person of wrongdoing...
...Instead, we must continue doing research while, at the same time, begin preparing for a possibly catastrophic future. There's absolutely nothing wrong with an insurance policy against such major economic and ecological disasters. After all, if we pay a little now to develop alternative energy sources or recycle papers and metals, we are sure to save a lot later...
Pynchon's devotion to electronic allusions has been criticized before, and Vineland will no doubt increase the number of protests. It is, admittedly, disquieting to find a major author drawing cultural sustenance from The Brady Bunch and I Love Lucy instead of The Odyssey and the Bible. But to condemn Pynchon for this strategy is to confuse the author with his characters. He is a gifted man with anti-elitist sympathies. Like some fairly big names in innovative fiction, including Flaubert, Joyce and Faulkner, Pynchon writes about people who would not be able to read the books in which they...