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These children have very different problems and prospects, but they all have one thing in common: their mothers repeatedly took crack cocaine, often in combination with other drugs, during pregnancy. That makes them part of a tragic generation of American youngsters -- a generation unfairly branded by some as "children of the damned" or a "biologic underclass." More often, they are simply called crack kids. A few have severe physical deformities from which they will never recover. In others the damage can be more subtle, showing up as behavioral aberrations that may sabotage their schooling and social development. Many of these...
...represents the conscious abridgement of freedom of speech by those who claim to hold it most dear. But perhaps even more tragic for the pursuit of free thought on this campus, it has become a straw man for various conservatives who prefer hiding behind accusations of PC to engaging in constructive discourse...
Tony runs away, Maria tries to send him a message and events speed rapidly to a tragic conclusion. Sound familiar? It should. The characters and major plot devices in West Side Story correspond almost exactly with Romeo and Juliet...
...replayed as transvestite vaudeville and rather poor lighting leaves the audience more confused than amazed. And in the last two scenes, the catchy songs have all been sung, and the dancing is over. What remains is a rather explicit attempt at rape and Tony's death. Instead of being tragic, these scenes feel sensationalist...
...intellectual dignity and a higher sense of his possibilities. The dignity encourages relief and acceptance. The universe may be the splendid, twittish neverland of P.G. Wodehouse (escape maybe, but a steadying one) or Anthony Trollope's order, or Tolkien's. I know a married couple who got through a tragic time by reading Dickens to each other every night. Years ago, recovering from a heart operation, I read Shelby Foote's three-volume history of the American Civil War -- a universe indeed, the fullest, most instructive tragedy of American history, all of the New World's Homer and Shakespeare enacted...