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Archie floats serenely above the new racial order, buoyed by his belief in the power of the coin toss. But Samad, confronted with a hostile, foreign culture and a young, indifferent wife, retreats into what he thinks he knows best: his own culture and religion. Smith makes it clear, however, that the latter—already irrevocably changed by his life in England—is reaching for a past that never existed...
Samad and Archie’s stories, as well as the stories from their long-suffering young wives’ points of view, make up the first and best half of the book. But “White Teeth” changes once Smith takes up the mantle of the new generation, the products of cross-cultural fertilization. Smith provides a snapshot of Archie’s daughter Irie writing feverishly in her diary. Her depiction of overwrought adolescence is pitch-perfect: “8:30 P.M. Millat just walked in. He’s sooo gorgeous but ultimately...
...anything, the best lesson to date that can be drawn from the show is the one manifested in the remarkable pluck and ingenuity of the Draper himself. Faced with the decision to continue on blindly, and unhappily, as a piece in a nebulous mechanism he has no control over, our man refuses to resign himself to the station of a corporate whore (as his mother was, and as he views his soon-to-be ex-wife Betty to be). I, and certainly many fans, expected this finale to be a doomsday episode–the death of a character seemed...
...heritage and the welfare of our posterity—in both material and immaterial terms. At the heart of American culture has always been a special knack for innovation in challenging circumstances. It is entirely appropriate that we should now consider jazzing up our institutions and investing in our best, brightest, and most beautiful to aid in national recovery...
...Crimson comes into the contest with the most efficient offense in the Ivy League, averaging 28.9 points per game. The Quakers have the best defense in Divison I-AA, allowing just 11.0 points per game. Something will have to give...