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...phenomenon ever, broke up. Yet even now the baby-faced member of the quartet who sent girls into spasms of screaming ecstasy on The Ed Sullivan Show back in 1964 is still "the cute one." His stylishly long hair has gone salt-and-pepper. When he smiles, crinkles arc downward from his hazel eyes. He wears loose vests even though there doesn't seem to be any pudge to hide. Otherwise, there's nothing flashy about him: just a pair of old Timberlands on his feet, a wedding ring with a tiny jade heart on his hand and that cheeky...
Felix tears the soles off shoes, pastes barge glue onto leather, hammers the new sole on and pares away the excess. His head angles forward after a lifetime of looking downward. Without interrupting the rhythm of his work he says, "So what questions do you have?" I ask him to talk about his work...
...something is happening to the traditional nation-state. It is beginning to explode in two directions. Some of the newer, less stable states are exploding downward, as it were, into ever smaller ethnic or religious units -- which really is not nationalism but tribalism. Such splintering in the name of self-determination and freedom is understandable, but can also be dangerous. It makes no sense for every tribe, every language group, every cultural community to try to be sovereign...
...innocuous, even noble, nature of almost everything it underwrites, the NEA has become one of the most controversial agencies of government. A target for President Reagan on the theory that merit ought to be defined by the populist mechanism of the box office, it spent the past decade spiraling downward from dreams of expansion to danger of demise. Artists and administrators who benefit from the NEA's money and imprimatur concede they have blown the political debate. They allowed the right wing to misrepresent culture as a hotbed of the unpatriotic, the irreligious, the sexually permissive and perverse. "We have...
...Syracuse University and Greg Duncan of the University of Michigan, "the middle class has decreased from about three-quarters of the population to about two-thirds." Some of the shrinkage resulted from upward mobility -- people earned their way into upper brackets. But most of the change has been downward...