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...persuade you not to read Lisa Alther's new novel, Bedrock? Since her first novel, Kinflicks, remains a fondly remembered artifact of the 1970s fusion of feminism and sexual freedom, a conventional negative review might convey the unintended message that this book is merely disappointing. But shouting from the rooftops "This is drivel!" would make me seem like the kind of insensitive male who is rooting for the Donald in the divorce dispute of the decade...
During the days of universal conscription, even before racial integration, poor Southern sharecroppers and rich New England WASPs shared barracks. The forced fusion of social classes during the Second World War (remember the ethnic composition of the platoons in John Wayne movies) was partly responsible for the unprecedented social mobility of the post-war period...
This is not to romanticize the prospects for improving society by forcing people to associate. Obviously, not every army batallion featured a Hawkeye Pierce and a Charles Emerson Winchester '40 learning to respect each other's humanity while tossing off wisecracks. But the forced fusion of diverse elements of the population made American society more fluid and less class-conscious. (It also ensured that decision-making elites had to bear their share of the costs of war; leaders are likely to be more prudent about using military force when their sons are in the trenches than when they are safely...
Professor of Government, Michael J. Sandel put the state's troubles within a national context. He said the fusion of three major trends--a sense of frustration from 1970s politics, former President Ronald Reagan's anti-big government rhetoric and the "unraveling" of inter-generational agreements--helped create the rancorous climate of state politics...
...instrument began the electronization of the earth. The telephone system has amounted to the first step toward global mental telepathy. The telephone and its elaborations (computer modems, fax machines and so on) have endowed the planet with another dimension altogether: a dissolution of distance, a warping of time, a fusion of the micro (individual mind) and macro (the world). Charles de Gaulle declined to have a telephone, undoubtedly because he had already fused micro and macro -- Le monde...