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...most significant achievements of the '60s were the victories of the civil rights movement. Yet today race relations are in an abysmal state. Lyndon Johnson championed the Great Society. Thirty years later, we're still trying to sort out the welfare system while our inner cities spiral into decay. As for the Vietnam War, student activism helped bring about an end to that. But that activism also entrenched a vitriolic suspicion of patriotism that still pervades college campuses across the country...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Dyin' With Dylan | 1/30/1998 | See Source »

...Long-winded proposal included Proverbs 12: 4 ("A wife of noble character is her husband's crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones") and the more swoon-inducing Proverbs 31: 10 ("A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 22, 1997 | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...three-part serialization, it is one of the most popular novels in recent Japanese literature. Critics have proclaimed Murakami, also the author of the much-lauded Dance Dance Dance and Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, the heir-apparent to the great Yukio Mishima (Decay of the Angel...

Author: By Brandon K. Walston, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Surreal 'Chronicle' Traces Search for Cat, Identity in Japan | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

Flag-burning, school uniforms and V-chips seemed trivial to New Yorkers in the face of the big beefy issues of municipal bankruptcy, urban decay, and criminal danger lurking around every corner. Where campaigns beyond the Hudson strive for a vanilla homogeneity that does not offend or alienate any potential voters, New York politicos have never been afraid to muddy themselves in the racial, ethnic, and social divides within the electorate...

Author: By Rustin C. Silverstein, | Title: Snoozing Through the Circus | 10/23/1997 | See Source »

...Turnbull, Updike comments on the hubris of man and anticipates his inevitable fall. Living in 2020 in a posh suburb of Boston, a survivor of the recent Sino-American war and the ensuing social chaos, Turnbull indulges his ravenous sexual appetite and considers his own and his world's decay...

Author: By Adriane N. Giebel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Death, Decay, Decline | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

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