Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...column, joins TIME as a regular contributor. If you are like most of his loyal readers, you'll love him. You'll also hate him from time to time. After all, Kinsley has a reputation for infuriating conservatives and liberals alike, except when he is busy delighting them. Apart from writing in the New Republic, Kinsley has been a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and has written for the Washington Monthly, Harper's and FORTUNE. No one is safe from his bite. After dedicating his 1987 collection of writings, Curse of the Giant Muffins (Summit Books...
...outsider and helpless victim, he still writes what he describes as a literature of uprootedness. In his new novel, The Immortal Bartfuss, the concept of a Jewish homeland is not relevant. Bartfuss, the emotionally anesthetized protagonist, does not even have a proper home. He sleeps in a room apart from a wife he avoids and two daughters he scarcely knows. Bartfuss is some sort of underworld trader who keeps his money hidden in a box that his family cannot find. His business hours evidently are erratic and short, because he spends most of his time gazing at the sea from...
With Tom's childhood set as a backdrop, the story begins with Tom emasculated and insecure, his marriage falling apart. When his children demand to know why their father always cooks dinner, Tom says to his wife, "I told you, Sallie...if you raise children in the South, you produce Southerners. And a Southerner is one of God's natural fools...
...said the U.N.'s position as a neutral arbiter is in jeopardy, particularly in the Middle East and South Africa, where the international organization has taken strong political stances. "These two issues...are tearing the U.N. apart," said Maynes, transforming it into "judge, jury and executioner...
THERNSTROM may have been thoughtless, careless, or foolish; he was not racially insensitive. Any treatment of racial or ethnic groups is difficult and awkward by nature because by setting a group apart one takes on the role of observer and judge. This role is not assumed by choice but prescribed by the subject matter. Ethnicity is a difficult subject to treat because people are afraid to confront the basic fact that people are different. Some of them are more advantaged than others by whatever accidents of circumstance place their ethnic group in their socioeconomic context. Any class on immigration...