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...things that seem troublesome to me are of a different order. The dissolution of family and community which proceeds apace the world over causes traditional forms of social discipline as well as support to break down setting ever more individuals adrift in a sea of anxiety; terrorism and drug addiction are among its most disturbing manifestations. The scope of international indebtedness is also worrisome because it parts at risk the whole financial and economic structure of the world. But for the reasons stated I remain confident that before these undesirable trends have had a chance to run their full course...
...risking his life. "I invented all sorts of answers, but none of them was honest." The truth dawned in midocean, as he was listening to a radio interview with a man who, as he remembers, had resailed the route Captain Bligh followed after he was cast adrift from the Bounty by mutineers. "He had come up with all these reasons, to prove Bligh's logs were right, to prove Bligh was a good sailor, but none of it sounded right. It didn't fit. I thought, 'It's an adventure. You don't have...
...three-quarters of a century the N.A.A.C.P., resolutely mainstream in its struggles for racial justice, has been the most important U.S. civil rights organization. Yet the group has been adrift for almost a decade, and its membership has been halved to fewer than 200,000. Now open mutiny seems to have broken out at the top. With a curt letter sent last week, Margaret Bush Wilson, chairman of the N.A.A.C.P. board of directors, summarily suspended Executive Director Benjamin Hooks...
Throughout his intense immersion in the time of his times, Norman Mailer has repeated his conviction that making history is preferable to reading it. In his influential essay "The White Negro" (1957), Mailer turned the emerging social type known as the hipster into a daring pioneer adrift in "the perpetual climax of the present," freed of all moral guides and codes of conduct except the thrumming of his own nervous system. The author specifically disavowed any precedents for this existential frame of mind: "If the ethic reduces to Know Thyself and Be Thyself, what makes it radically different from Socratic...
...repartee, from Timothy Mayer's script, too often seems equally adrift. While former "Saturday Night Live" regular Denny Dillon performs confidently as Billy's mechanic, Lotus, her character soon becomes tiring. She refers to Edythe as "sea slime," but elsewhere her lines lose their freshness, especially in one explicitly excremental description of the Prince's brain. The book also forces Tune to reflect upon the time before everyone's birth, when we were "up swimming around in the sky waiting for the Lord to imagine...