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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...acknowledging their dependence on a healthy biosphere. Seeing earth as a whole erases the illusion that humanity is separate from the natural order. For that reason alone, The Home Planet (Addison-Wesley; $19.95), an elegant compilation of photos taken during American and Soviet space missions, might be the first text in a syllabus for environmental re-education. In quotes accompanying the pictures, cosmonauts and astronauts from more than a dozen nations struggle to express the transcendental experience of seeing how life has invested our planet with a luminous beauty. Writes Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov: "So touchingly alone, our home must...
...language of this play is comic, precise and lyrical, and every member of the cast delivers the text with perfect sensitivity and meaning. The interaction between the actors on stage is engaging, and the pace of the dialogue, delivered in a rich Irish brogue, is carefully crafted and natural. Hammel excels in his depiction of Billy's solipsism, anger and sense of justice. Hammel portrays Billy's highly complex character with a combination of humor, melancholy, wisdom and power. This is a stunningly well-executed play; it is a shame that The Poker Session runs only one weekend...
...annual meeting in Washington last week the National Conference of Catholic Bishops also joined the Columbus fray, in a pastoral letter on the evangelization of the Americas. The text acknowledged that indigenous Americans' encounter with Europeans was "harsh and painful." Nonetheless, the bishops went on, "the effort to portray the history of the encounter as a totally negative experience in which only violence and exploitation of the native peoples were present is not an accurate interpretation of the past...
...Text is so boring. And what a text! It espoused "traditional values." I don't mean to be difficult, but isn't that rather vague? After all, it is traditional for the Indians, er, excuse me, Native Americans, to value community ownership of land. Is that what I am supposed to live by? Needless to say, I was unimpressed...
...interest of my own personal sanity and the conservation of thumbtacks, I decided start my own group, ENOUGH. The philosophy is simple. Date and share an abode with whomever you please, and shut up about it. We really don't care. And don't plaster my entryway with boring text that says nothing. I feel compelled to read it. I read all the stuff from the Publisher's Clearing House...