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Thank you, Lance Morrow, for your thoughtful essay "The Case for Rage and Retribution" [SPECIAL ISSUE]. You wrote, "The worst times, as we see, separate the civilized of the world from the uncivilized." But what defines civilization if not the seeking of peace and justice in light of violence and intolerance and hate? Murderers and criminals should be made to pay, and those who seek to terrorize should be stopped. I agree that now is the time for Americans to show what we are made of, to be at our best. But our best is not rage and retribution...
...Morrow's essay was the best thing anyone had to say during the long week following the attacks. I hope it helps us all sober up for what lies ahead. DOUG TUETING Edina, Minn...
...credit, of course, goes to Ulrich, who coined the phrase in a 1976 essay. While a professor at the University of New Hampshire, Ulrich penned “Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial Literature, 1668-1735,” which appeared in American Quarterly. Journalist Kay Mills later included the piece in an anthology, and the quote (in actuality, “Well-behaved women seldom make history”) found its way into the mainstream. The original essay focused on those people that Cotton Mather called “the hidden ones” —women...
...ardently agree with Lance Morrow that we must have the resolve as a people and a nation to vent our rage and seek retaliation [ESSAY, SPECIAL ISSUE]. I am sickened by the number of appeals for forgiveness that I am already seeing on church announcement boards and hearing from commentators on talk shows. Repressed rage festers like any other infection and weakens us both morally and spiritually. There is nothing inhuman or immoral about venting rage, protecting ourselves or trying to eradicate a poison that is seeking to eradicate our nation. In fact, I believe that to do otherwise...
...times the second section of the book, “The Essay,” feels a bit removed from her theories about the connection between narrator and subject as she focuses so intensely on the works she is analyzing, but Gornick’s perceptive criticism and explication is fascinating nonetheless. In the memoir section, Gornick introduces more of her philosophy on the memoir, its definition and value. “Modern memoir posits that the shaped presentation of one’s own life is of value to the disinterested reader only if it dramatizes and reflects sufficiently...