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...Given the centrifugal tendencies of our time--and the extent to which the fabric of so many institutions, systems, and even entire nations has been strained--it is critical that we find ways to foster unity within our diversity," Rudenstine writes...
...cities is the long-term solution. A return to the basic family structure and a stable job market would go a long way toward rectifying the situation. Politicians are constantly paying lip service to this goal; unfortunately that's about all they're able to do. Restructuring the social fabric of urban America is a monumental task that will take decades. We can't wait that long to end the violence...
...exception to the idea that homosexuality "undermines civilization." After all, if Western culture has been institutionally homophobic for thousands of years, what is wrong with undermining it? If the heterosexual, patriarchal family is so deeply entrenched in Western social and political institutions, then homosexual activity clearly must unravel the fabric of such a society and "undermine civilization." The "queer" polemicists at least have the advantage of facing squarely the radical implications of their social and political program; the BGLSA's attempt to hide behind a screen of stolid social respectability is simply naive...
...year chronicle of the economic disaster, replete with awful statistics; the few that are thrown in (the unemployment rate reached 25% in 1933) are awful enough. No windy political-science seminar on the strategies of Roosevelt's New Deal; the emphasis is not on Washington but on the fabric of life in the country, from breadlines and Hoovervilles to race riots and violent labor-management confrontations. Nor, perhaps most refreshingly, is there much nostalgic reveling in the decade's pop culture; despite an occasional movie clip (42nd Street, Dinner at Eight), the series keeps its eye on reality...
McDonald, who received her Ph.D. from Yale, published The Proustian Fabric in 1991 and is the editor of several books and essay collections on French literature...