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...Joyce Carol Oates wrote a semiserious essay, "Against Nature," in which she noted that the natural world lacks such essentials as a sense of irony or humor. An observer of otters at mealtime (all day) might argue about the sense of humor. But it is certainly true that compared with the throbbing of insistent newness--city life--one's responses to the natural world, such as peace, awe and piety, are pretty tame...
Since November, Carol Price has been an organizer of the Million Mom March on behalf of "commonsense" gun control, scheduled for Mother's Day on the Mall in Washington. Donna Dees Thomases, the New Jersey publicist and mother of two who launched plans for the march, says that Price's public anguish speaks for thousands of families branded by gun violence--and furious at legislative inaction...
...speech delivered at the Kennedy School Forum on Monday, April 17, the longest-serving administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Carol Browner described the convoluted history of federal responsibility for protecting public health through the assurance of a safe physical environment. So far, the success story has been defined by the national mediation of parochial arguments between the industrial sector and determined environmental activists, with occasional but costly lawsuits filed against the EPA by both sides. This trend will likely continue far into the term of the next EPA administrator whose style and mandate will be determined...
...Joyce Carol Oates, an astute critic as well as an accomplished and prolific novelist, surely knew the trouble she was making for herself in Blonde (HarperCollins; 738 pages; $27.50), a novel based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. The screen actress was already a legend at the time of her death (at age 36 in 1962), and the subsequent flood of biographies, reminiscences and analytical studies has rendered her ubiquitous in the public imagination. What can a novelist, even one working at the top of her form, add to an icon...
...fearful ups and downs of Judy Garland's life are ideally suited to the horror-show style of biography Joyce Carol Oates has dubbed "pathography." But though Clarke is frank, you never feel he is piling up sordid details just for fun. He suffers with her every time she repeats the cycle of "a brilliant start, several years of spectacular success--and then disaster" that marked her career from beginning...