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...groups have been content to live with in the American salad bowl. In Cities on a Hill, FitzGerald--who is running this spring for a position on Harvard's Board of Overseers on a University-nominated slate of candidates--takes the reader through four alternative communities that popped up in America during the past two decades: the Castro, San Fransisco's gay neighborhood; Lynchburg, Virginia, home of Jerry Falwell's Liberty Baptist Church; the Rajneeshee community in Oregon; and the Sun City retirement village in Florida...
...signs are everywhere. Black-clad, beret-wearing intellectuals walk the streets, muttering in French accents about meta-narratives and hermeneutics. Texts by Foucault have replaced the once ubiquitous Marx-Engels Reader as the staple on every academic reading list. One has merely to stroll through the ever-growing Literary Criticism sections in Cambridge bookstores to recognize the imminent danger that is threatening our society. The Day of Deconstruction is upon...
...computer screening of the contents of thedisc would be a lot like reading a book, Cranesays. There would be footnotes running along sidethe text which would vary in complexity accordingto the level of the reader. Crane says that thecomputer-stored information would be able to beused by lay student and scholar alike...
McConnell's book ends as it began, with an account of the launch which took place despite significant misgivings. Reading about the disaster for the second time, the reader feels a certain rage at the arrogance and idiocy that caused it, and cares enough about the astronauts--who had no inkling of the O-ring difficulty--to grieve for them. None but the most iron-hearted cynic could enjoy a space shuttle joke after reading this book...
...reader this poem