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THIS is not to say that laying a collective guilt trip on the Harvard community should be the goal of campus activism. Being shocked into self-awareness is not the same thing as being made to feel guilty. Good "shock-activism" will create, among students, a new emotional connection with what was previously merely a newspaper headline. Such an emotional awareness should lead to thought and discussion about the issue at hand, in this case the role of the U.S. government in El Salvador...
...anger should be directed toward the system that encourages us to get angry at the slightest disruptions in our daily routine, while it simultaneously funds the killings in El Salvador. COCA is doing a good job of laying bare the hypocrisy of that system...
...Thanksgiving represents more than a litany of good tidings and an amalgam of turkey-time truisms. There is a stubborn rectitude to the holiday itself, reminiscent of its stiff-necked Pilgrim forbearers. More than any other date on the calendar, Thanksgiving has remained private and personal, devoid of the tinsel trappings that mar the rest of contemporary life. On this ecumenical holiday, Americans are allowed to be as prayerful or as secular as they choose, with no one complaining that they have somehow taken the thanks out of Thanksgiving...
...public prattle about family values, no other holiday brings generations together without the lure of anything more tangible than a good dinner. Think of the novelty of an extended family forced to spend the day doing little other than talking, eating and digesting. Distractions are gloriously limited: the malls are closed and the televised sports offerings sparse. Unlike New Year's Eve, no one feels compelled to have the time of one's life or broods unduly when reality fails to conform to these exaggerated expectations. The perfect Thanksgiving is timeless, as families replicate their own familiar rituals, complete with...
...provocateur, Wolfe is enjoying the controversy. Agreeing cheerfully that his piece is indeed self-serving, he now adds to his list of targets Italian best-selling writer Umberto Eco, whose latest novel, Foucault's Pendulum, is a phantasmagorical venture into the occult. "Eco," Wolfe says, "is a very good example of a writer who leads dozens of young writers into a literary cul-de-sac." Harper's plans to throw more fuel on the bonfire. Editor Lapham will devote a large part of his January issue to responses and rebuttals to Wolfe...