Category: Imported

Eleven immigrants to the United States tell the storiesnof their lives in a series of audiocassettes prepared especiallynfor Mass Communications, Inc. Taped duringninformal conversations, these men and w/omen relatenwhat they remember of the towns where they grew up,ntheir families and schooling, the reasons that impellednthem to emigrate, the journey by land and sea and thenbeginnings...

involvement in the Central Americanndrug trade, and the CIA-contra warnagainst Nicaragua.” Specifically, hensaid, “it would target the relationshipnbetween Vice President George Bushnand Panamanian strongman GeneralnManuel Noriega,” who has been indictednby a Florida court on charges ofndrug trafficking.nThe appearance of comic books innthe presidential campaign reflects angrowing tendency within the realm ofncomic bookdom to link the...

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no one travels to a city or town becausenof the wonderful homeless servicesnthey’ve heard about there. People arenattracted to a certain area because theynhear of jobs, or because they like thatnarea of the country, or because a friendnor relative lives there and likes it—notnbecause of the extensive network ofnsocial services available there for homelessnpeople.nDeveloping services...

T H E 1988 NATIONAL BOOKnAwards were a triumph for the literarynestablishment, especially for RandomnHouse and its editorial director, JasonnEpstein. Readers of the JanuarynChronicles may have thought we wentntoo far in calling the New York publishingnworid a cartel. This past year’snawards ceremony (November 29)nprovided the clinching argument. Thenmajor presses — Viking, HoughtonnMifflin, and Random House...

may result in automatic imprisonment.nUnder this act, every member of thenCity Council of Chicago, black andnwhite, Christian and Jew, could findnhimself on trial in the Hague. Ethnicntensions there have risen high enoughnthat the council had to introduce a billnbanning racial and sexual insults fromncouncil meetings. The President couldnnot have picked a better site for hisndramatic...

Edward Lawrence SchiefFelin’s story seems like somethingnmade up by a Hollywood writer long on clichenand short on imagination, for his silver strike epitomized thenhopes and dreams of every sourdough prospector who evernwandered the lonely mountains, valleys, and streams of thenAmerican West. For years he searched in vain, living on thenedge of starvation while nourishing hopes...

for themselves and their city. They established churches,nerected schools, formed fraternal organizations, openednstores, voted funds for a town library; some even met to readneach other their literary endeavors.nTombstone’s day in the economic sun was brief. In 1886nthe mines, which were down about 500 feet, began to flood,nand gradually they shut. In 1901 there was a...

Earp was shy, unassuming, courteous to women, modest,nviolent only when forced into it, and deadly in his righteousnwrath.nThe moviemakers likewise discovered Tombstone, seeingncommercial potential in the emerging myth of the city. Likenthe fictioneers of the pulp magazines, they transformed thentown into King Arthur’s England. Earp became Sir Galahadnand his friends the knights of the Round...

REUVEIHE SHININ6 HMESnOF THE MOUNTAIN MENnSPEOAL NOTICEn• The three Terry Johnston novels are each selfcontainednhistorical novels of the RockynMountain fur trade. Each can be readnseparately, or as part of the 3-volume saga.n• Each book is sold on a moneybacknguaranteed basis – if you are not completelynsatisfied, just return the book within 30 daysnfor a prompt...

happier and wealthier than it is.”nIf you have recently left the eastern United States and arentraveling west, or were reared in the East where water andnroads shift and turn as they come up against hills andnmountains, it is disorienting to go about the West, where sonmany of the roads are straight lines that seem to...

the individual property owners to get the money back, evennthough they may have acquired the land after the damagenwas done by someone else. Which brings us back to Burke’snflies of a summer. “Unmindful of . . . what is due to theirnposterity, [the temporary possessors and life-renters] [w]ouldnact as if they were the entire masters.”...

diagnosed part of the problem when he notes, “Our farmsnare endangered because — like the interstate highways ornmodern hospitals or modern universities — they cannot beninexpensively used. To be usable at all they require greatnexpense.”nWe need to make an effort to arrive at a principled,narticulate stewardship that will help us stop thenmarauding and the devastation,...

dollars more in goods from abroad than it sold abroad.nWhy did this happen? First, other countries blockednUnited States entry into their markets and dumped many ofntheir goods at subsidized rates on the American marketplace.nIn a marketplace that was really not free, even the genius ofnthe American free enterprise system could not competenwith large subsidies.nSecond, the...

The doctors became as much a part of the problem as thenlawyers. The health care system grew bloated and inefhcient,ntaking more of the gross national product andnrepresenting a greater share of the overhead of Americanngoods. In 1985 the US spent $1,500 per capita on healthncare. Great Britain spent $400 per capita on health care, andnSingapore...

America’s ability to compete in the world was alsonaffected by its high rates of violent crime. By 1985 it had fiventimes more homicides, ten times more rapes, and 17 timesnmore robberies than Japan. New York City had twice asnmany homicides as in all of Japan. In the five years of thenearly 1980’s, United States business...

the 1980 census, Southern Baptists were three times morennumerous than the Methodists; they outnumbered thenEpiscopalians, with their prayer books and bishops, 16 to 1.nThe gaps have no doubt widened since then.nNo university of truly national stature can be found innTexas or has ever been found there. The main campus ofnthe University of Texas, located in...

hundreds of thousands, generally prosperous.nThe Railroad Commission, both during the glory days ofnoil and the subsequent energy squeeze, entertained nonnotion of an eternal vendetta between consumers on thenone hand and companies on the other. The assumption wasnthat both groups were interested in reliable supplies atnaffordable prices.nLiberal populism is of another cast and variety. Itsnexemplar is...

Each summit shows a furthernslope of stones,nSquat black holm-oak, rosemarynand thorns.nThis simply can’t be said in prose. Thenmusic of poetry, here, is as deeplynwedded to the story being told as are thencharacters and the settings.nAnd those characters are fiercely real.nThis is not a medieval saint’s tale, innwhich the central figure glows in thendark and can...

“Kosky’s” ideas in continuous runningnfootnotes at the bottom of every page,ncombining these with boldface quotationsn(from every imaginable personagenfrom Heinrich Himmler to Mae West)ninterspersed right in the main text. Thenresult is, simply, a brand new novelisticnform: utteriy original, and often fascinatingn(but sometimes — as in thenlengthy disquisitions on Tantric Yoganphilosophy of which “Kosky” is fond—ninterminable and...

DO YOU THINKnTHE MEDIAnARE BIASEDnAGAINSTCONSERVATIVES?nIf SO, MediaWatch is for you. Every monthnMediaWatch will give you examples, quotes,nstudies and analysis exposing the liberal bias ofnthe media, especially the TV networks.nWilliam Rusher, Publisher of National Review, callsnMediaWatch “by long odds the most inspired idea thatnhas hit the conservative movement in years. Yourndetermined and comprehensive coverage of the...

The City ofnMan — Texas Stylenby Carl C. CurtisnIndianola: The Mother ofnWestern Texasnby Brownson MalschnAustin: State House Press;n351 pp., $19.95nWe all know something of citiesnthat thrived once and then fornone reason or another ceased to exist —npreclassical cities we read about in mythnand epic; Homer’s Troy or St. Paul’snEphesus. So used are we to thinking...

al Assembly to hand over the state to anbrutal but effective military dictatorship.n(The Tupamaros’ first triumph was thenmurder of US advisor Dan Mitrione, annact glorified in Costa-Gavras’s movienState of Siege.)nIn the 1970’s many people believednthat the Red Brigades and their extraparliamentarynallies were going to have,nthe same success in Italy. VittorfranconPisano surveys the carnage wrought innItaly...

the Southern exposition of the Agrariannlegacy Tracts Against Communism.nThe political pattern is as old as Abrahamnand as timely as Solidarity innPoland, the mujahideen of Afghanistan,nand a variety of other Easternnethnics — Armenians, Lithuanians,nEstonians, and others—who are testingnSoviet ^/dsnosf with tentative assertionsnof folk identity and religious liberty.nIn this way, Tate and Lytle’s view ofnthe “War of...

REDSKIN WRITINGnThe West, by which Americans meantnthe frontier, has defined one of the polesnof American literature. New England,nand the Northeast in general, have alwaysnrepresented our sense of standingnin the long shadows of European civilization,nand even the best Northeasternnwriters—Hawthorne and Irving, to takenonly two examples—were seduced intonwriting and living as Europeans. Frontiernwriters, roughly identical with PhilipnRahv’s...

Letter From thenNorthwestnby Catherine RudolphnBreaking the CowboysnI had occasion to visit Pendleton, Oregonnrecently. It is the “purple mountains’nmajesty, above the fruited plain”nthat we sing about, only the peaks thatnrim the valley bowl are the Blue Mountains,nand the fruit of the land is animalnas well as vegetable.nPendleton is famous for its gloriousnwoolens, which you can read...

der a waterless sky, to reach fertile land.nThey would find it hard to imaginenthat such long strides were taken at songreat a cost, only to have those whoncame after driven from the soil, not bynnature but by ignorant rule.nModern ranch hands coming downnthe Dead Man’s Pass travel the 6npercent grade in fourwheel drive trucks,nthen rumble...

I used to love those songs. I remembernplaying them over and over. Butnlistening to them now, I realize thatnthey are horrible: musically, culturally,nin every way. Phil Harris, this whitenman from Ohio, was working in thencoon song tradition. From the middlenof the last century until the middle ofnthis one, that tradition produced literallynscores of demeaning songs...

Letter From Albionnby Andrei NavrozovnPrison Pencil, SupermarketnCrayonn”Poets in our civilization,” a famousnpoet wrote in his most famous essay,n”must be difficult.” He went on tonexplain his thought, and his Englishspeakingnaudience understood him.nWhen the thought was translated, itnwent on living in other languages. Butnwould an English-speaking audiencenunderstand his famous lines:nPlease come with menWhen nightnLike a man undergoingnsurgery...

sia? Half-intuitively, half-rationally, Ratushinskayanknows, it seems, that whatnhas existed is a succession of tacticalndecisions, made by the rulers of totalitariannRussia in their 70-year effort tondeceive and disarm the free West. Asnpart of that effort, Lenin’s New EconomicnPolicy, Stalin’s New Constitution,nKhrushchev’s New Liberalism,nand the present-day New Opennessnhave all done their job. What they havennot done is...

Letter From thenHeartlandnby Jane GreernWalt Disney Rolls Over innHis GravenFun for the whole family, the ad for thenmovie said. (I was relieved to know thatnit wasn’t zany or lafF-packed, althoughnlater I would have settled for that.) Ournkids, then eight and 13, deserved ancelebration for lasting through the finalnday of school before Christmas vacation,nso, loaded with...

LITERATUREnA View From thenTop of the Ridgenby M.E. BradfordnOn the Literature of thenAmerican WestnFor the last several weeks, working atna leisurely pace, I have been readingnthrough the new and extremelynambitious Columbia Literary Historynof the United States. This is a hugenwork, one which has many merits andnaspires to be inclusive. Indeed, it is anconscious attempt to...

tinguished scholarship, beginning withnthe studies of Samuel Eliot Morisonnand Perry Miller, and reaching fulfillmentnin the most recent writings ofnEdmund Morgan, Ernest Lee Tuveson,nand Sacvan Bercovitch.nThe Southern corporate myth isnanother matter—one I have attemptednto describe in the opening chapters ofnmy Generations of the Faithful Heart.nFor the South was an England transplanted,nnot a Protestant Zion — a...

Oregon Trail. But finally he cannotnlive at ease among the “civilizers,”nseeking instead for a refuge among thenShoshone and neighboring tribes.nThere he remarries, gets a son, and isnkilled by soldiers — amidst what remainsnof “clear air and bright waters,”nthe unchanged handiwork of God.nSummers’ antitype is the self-madenprimitive Boone Caudill who is, despitenthe more admirable side-effects ofnhis...

of Jack Schaefer’s Shane (1949). Butnthere are also many negative versionsnof the same model, overreachers ornsupermen like Guthrie’s explosivenBoone Caudill. Nature’s revengenagainst presumptions committed in violationnof her authority has, in WesternnAmerican literature, its most powerfulnrendering in Walter Van TilbergnClark’s evocative The Track of the Catn(1949).nIn this book the three Bridges brothers,nwith their elderly parents, have...

peaks towering above and the plainsnspread out below him, with his enemiesnvisible as small figures marchingnin search of their quarry, the Westernnartist is like Abbey’s Jack Burns. But innpracticing his craft upon his subject, henwill, I suspect, prefer to make a standninstead of retiring into the “timber,” ornsome other country of the mind. If wenwait...

athletes. Coming up with such regulationsnis going to be dicey, because therenis not a worldwide definition of “professional.”nIt may be impossible to findna common ground. Financially-assistednforeign athletes may still be thought ofnas amateurs in their own countries,nespecially when compared to American-stylenpro basketball players. Even ifnthe IOC makes a ruling on whatnconstitutes a professional, ways to...

collective mind, as she put it. But atnleast prose is for everybody. Poetry isnnot.nNew poems are sometimes new halfna century later, as is the case with mynown “The Groundhog,” or “The Furynof Aerial Bombardment.” Both are oldnbut have lasted. Take a look at SirnArthur Quiller-Couch’s Oxford Booknof English Verse. Flip back to the lastnhalf-inch of...

Zeljko Ivanek as the Prince of Denmark at the Guthrie Theaternconcept, but Ivanek was not up tonbringing it off. There needs to bensomething appealing about Hamlet, annair that offsets his sometimes pettynrage, or a handsomeness at least, tonhelp make up for the petulance that isnso often his outlet for grief This versionnof the play had...

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WHEN WE ARGUE about whatnshould be taught in schools and colleges,nat stake is our conception of thenworld. Our theory of the world tells usnwhat we should teach, and whom wenmay ignore.nDebates precipitated by SecretarynBennett’s important criticism of thenStanford curriculum centered uponnthe inclusion of formerly-ignoredngroups. But how to include Africa,nAsia, Latin America, and the Pacific innsuch...

even Yugoslavia is, in the words of ThenNew York Times, endangering then”process of gradual change in EasternnEurope.”nBut are expectations of “gradualnchange” in the Communist world realistic?nIn Yugoslavia, for long a showcasenof the US State Departmentn(“nudging towards change”), 40 yearsnof glasnost and perestroika havenbrought no lessening in CommunistnParty control over the lives of ordinarynYugoslavs. Between Milan...

In our age the business of literature has become as stalenand well-organized as the reports, memoranda, andnself-help books that comprise the literature of business. Thendays have long since past, when book-reading publishersnhired learned editors to put out magazines like The Nationnand The Atlantic or solicit original books for Scribner’s ornLitde, Brown. In our time vast...

ridiculous, but we do not live in a free market economy.nLiterature is controlled by monopolies and cartels that arenabout as open to competition as the postal system: Northeasternnpublishers, book agents, reviewers, foundations,ngovernment agencies, and the vast network of libraries andnuniversities, private as well as public.nThe vastness and diversity of these enterprises rule outnanything so harmless...

Southern writers in the 30’s was only a temporary interruptionnin the smooth running of the New York-Bostonnhegemony. Hilariously, Kostelanetz thinks there was anSouthern mafia dominated by Allen Tate and WilliamnFaulkner, who more or less couldn’t stand each other.)nConspiracies aside, our literature exhibits all the ugliestnfeatures of monopoly: our writers are smug, uncompetitive,nand incompetent; they are...

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In a world, ours, in which large and small atrocities are ourndaily fare and to which atrocities we often seem to havenbecome so ruthlessly accustomed as to have surrendered ournability to raise our eyebrows or to perform any moral gesturenwhatsoever above and beyond the habitual shrug (grinningnor weeping, no matter) of late 20th-century mankind, it...

smirky trick question, to name a couple of books they hadnread in times within recent memory. It was an oddly tensenmoment or two for partisans of both sides; for nobody couldnbe sure that either of these two office-seekers had indeednread anything or, anyway, could remember the experiencenof reading anything and summon up titles and maybenauthors...