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...Susan Sontag who observed, in her famously acute essay "Notes on 'Camp,'" that "the sensibility of high culture has no monopoly upon refinement... The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure." (Or, as Amanda says in Noel Coward's Private Lives, "Extraordinary, how potent cheap music is.") All the same, American culture moves so readily to legitimize the latest enthusiasms of mass taste--snowboarding! game shows! Irish step dancing!--that it always seems in danger of overwhelming art that demands quieter attention. The devilishly effective machinery of American pop culture turns our attention constantly...
...your head. I knew precisely how this one was going to go. It was to be a somewhat cliched, sometimes sentimental account of my three-and-a-half-year-old daughter attending her first professional baseball game. During its better moments it would be informed by Donald Hall's essay "Fathers Playing Catch With Sons" and during its lesser ones by, say, The Bridges of Madison County. It was going to be a . . . let's not call...
...overseas can still get their message out through followers like a woman in her 30s who met recently with TIME. An accountant for a foreign company in Beijing, she secretly uses her firm's overseas data line to read Falun Gong's website. In early January she found an essay by Li Hongzhi called "Beyond the Limits of Forbearance." Written at the time the demonstrations were starting to ebb, the essay urged more dramatic actions against the "evil" of the crackdown. "I copied it to a CD-ROM and gave it to everyone I know," she says. Through such networks...
...dates back to the late '70s, it has grown even stronger in recent years as middle-class parents realize their children are less connected to their racial heritage. "We are living lives that are integrated. Maybe too integrated," Los Angeles author Karen Grigsby Bates, 49, wrote in a Salon essay about her decision to involve her six-year-old son in Jack and Jill. "We began to notice our kids weren't, well, as black as we had been...
Barbara Ehrenreich's article on pre-employment testing, "What Are They Probing For?" [ESSAY, June 4], was much more a pro-marijuana speech than a legitimate examination of management practices. Having been a therapist for adolescents in a rehab program, I can say marijuana is not the innocuous drug Ehrenreich considers it to be. Marijuana is a significant problem for employers, individuals and society as a whole. Impaired motor skills and judgment, memory loss, difficulty concentrating, antisocial behavior and psychological addiction may all be related to marijuana use. BRET J. HERROD Highlands Ranch, Colo...