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Anyone campaigning for optimism runs the risk of sounding like Ronald Reagan in his famous fable of the Christmas pony in the manure pile. A person must have access to optimism - not often an available grace in areas of great poverty and disease (the African AIDS belt, for example). And it depends what the object of your optimism is. An optimist who hopes to start a flourishing small business is different from an optimist who hopes to blow himself to heaven by driving a car bomb into the Great Satan's military barracks...
...complex as motherhood, critics say, is little more than anthropology by analogy, relying on the worst kind of scientific reductionism to explain the highest kind of human impulses. But anthropologists view matters differently, seeing in animal and human mothers a striking commonness of purpose--and a striking commonness of grace. "All mothers face similar dilemmas," says anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy of the University of California at Davis, "no matter what their ambitions or circumstances...
...unforgivable self-indulgence redeemed by a sense of humor and a fierce refusal to succumb. What used to be called sex goddesses made their living by enacting a travesty of sex. Marilyn Monroe played wriggling, dumb-blond comedy, and ended in tragedy. Taylor has got through by the grace of a life principle that lives in the house of comedy...
...Grace Kao '01, who is currently a member of both the Sunday and Morning choirs, the University Choir is a professional group of singers. If they are doing their jobs correctly, she says, performing need not be a religious experience...
...dysfunctional people, and I wound up seeing all of them in one motion picture. I paid good money and spent two hours sitting in the dark like a captive, waiting to be rescued by some redeeming goodness--in vain. That was my experience of seeing American Beauty! R. FREDERICK GRACE Alhambra, Calif...