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...nearing his 80th birthday, Bellow remains America's most distinguished living writer, thickly bronzed by literary honors that include a Nobel Prize. But public monuments attract pigeons, in Bellow's case the flock of critics and political correctionists who dismiss his traditional humanism, learning and individuality as elitist or worse. Liberals and leftists have long attacked him as an insensitive conservative. Feminist discontent about the women in his fiction has been duly registered. More recently, Brent Staples, an editorial writer for the New York Times, objected in a memoir to the portrayal of a black man in Mr. Sammler...
...begin with, Singapore is an offshore republic that tightly limits immigration. Imagine crime-ridden Los Angeles, to which Singapore is sometimes contrasted, with hardly any inflow of the hard-luck, often desperate fortune seekers who flock to big cities. Imagine in the same way Jakarta or Shanghai. Beyond that, Singapore began its life as a British colony designed to serve as a shipping, administrative and financial center. Today it is a highly skilled society without the urban sprawl and rural poverty that afflict larger nations. An analogue might be Manhattan incorporated as a republic between the Battery and 96th Street...
Professional baseball has changed much over the years but opening day never will. As baseball loses more and more of its innocence, the thousands of Fenway faithful and I still flock back to the game. The players make millions, hotdogs cost three dollars, and Fenway has the 600 Club and a color scoreboard, but opening day is still the same...
...times, but especially when you are drunk, try to keep your lust in check. People might not like it very much when you successively hit on their girlfriend, sister, and mother. Conversely, (and especially for women) don't buy everything you hear. Men often flock certain bars on the hunt for American women--who have a reputation of being loaded and easy. If someone says you have a beautiful accent and then invites you for a walk along the dark beach, it's time to walk away...
...conventional wisdom is that Hollywood has taken over the Sundance Film Festival. But one could just as easily argue the reverse. The Mike Ovitz pretenders flock to Bob Redford's mountain to view the sort of offbeat, low- budget films that they would probably not otherwise see or pay much attention to. Struggling filmmakers, meanwhile, can meet, and perhaps impress, Hollywood decision makers without a bossy secretary blocking the way. "The festival gives people access to Hollywood who wouldn't otherwise have it," says Tom Rothman, president of worldwide production for Goldwyn. "Here you don't need a reservation...