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West's vision, which he calls prophetic pragmatism, is most fully spelled out in The American Evasion of Philosophy. The book traces how Emerson's emphasis on innovation, refined by John Dewey and other American thinkers, then leavened with a dose of Marxist class analysis and the black church's commitment to racial justice, can be the basis for a rebirth of democratic radicalism. Says West: "I'm trying to revive a grand yet flawed tradition, to take the best from liberalism, populism and the Gospel while keeping track of what happens to everyday people, the ones the Bible calls...
...says the incident gave her "a healthy dose of reality" and motivated her to "use my skills for getting things started that I learned at Harvard...
...with why a featherweight send-up of the men's back-to- primal-nature movement ran a year in Chicago and has chugalugged onto off- Broadway. The show offers fans of the departing sitcom Cheers, wondering how to cope without their favorite palookas, a two-hour maintenance dose of Norm, the fat, idle, beer-guzzling oaf with the inexplicably likable stumblebum smirk...
...perfectly sensible. After all, shouldn't consumers get the data they need to make an informed choice? But Rifkin himself isn't above misleading the consumer. One of his anti-BGH ads shows a young child with a glass of milk and a caption that reads, "Was there a dose of artificial growth hormone in her milk this morning...
...issue of personal identity and personal safety as well. While much progress has been made towards insuring homosexuals equal civil rights, the ROTC issue in particular has not yet gone away. In part, we have Colin Powell to thank for this. And while our administration offers a hefty dose of principled rhetoric to address both the ROTC issue and the Powell invitation, it has not yet allowed such considerations to affect its actions. It is sadly ironic that Powell should be an outspoken opponent of civil rights given his status as a prominent African-American...