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...Times' announcements, while useful for discouraging bigamists, perform other functions. A brisk exegesis, like a successful archeological dig, yields a wealth of information about American culture. The announcements trumpet the spawning and proliferation of a new class, the meritocracy, which journalist Nicholas Lemann defines as "a national personnel system that uses higher education to sort and slot a substantial portion of the population...
...bristly graduate students expounding semiotics and structural Marxism, and returns the fire of central-place theorists with the historicism of a la longue duree. And yet through all of this the logic of his own work, his own work, his capacity to conceptualize and direct the truly significant Big Dig, continues to unfold...
...Time mo' Sly. And suddenly, EW&F and JB and Sly and P-Funk and the AWB all soundin simiLAR and heaviER, NO MESS, ohh yeah, heavy snare and now HORN SECTIONS blowin' screamin' hot no hangin' back FO-ward again here hear here & IN YO' FACE. So dig this: "When we did wrong, papa beat the' hell out of us": Heavier and THICKer and ANGRYier...
...Edge Man: Send cards to both of your girlfriends. They dig that shit. They might even...
What's the secret? Women are just as capable of those qualities as men, although they are often discouraged. And diplomacy, which is something society associates with women, is necessary in all these areas too. A good journalist knows how to schmooze as well as how to dig...