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Today many Baby Boomers have renounced the lonely pursuit of self. Increasingly, they are groping to find a sense of worth in selflessness. The gurus and cult leaders are hard up for new recruits these days; the divorce rate appears even to have slipped a little. Though church attendance rates have not increased noticeably, some Baby Boomers speak of a "new spiritualism" and grope, often privately and quietly, to regain the faith they lost in the secular '60s and '70s. In the '80s the Baby Boomers are not exactly generating a new Baby Boom of their own--the total fertility...
Wanda: Not anymore, Ralph. These are different--they go in the sexual subsection of Interpersonal Realization. For example, this one by Dagmar O'Connor-- How to Make Love to the Same Person for the Rest of Your Life--is not one of those grunt-and-grope books, like The Joy of Sex. As it says on the flap, it's "the book for the Age of Commitment." It's about intimacy and building a great marriage by finding lifelong sexual excitement with your mate...
...characters also sink deeper into the tribulations of modern life. Garga's family falls apart, his sister Marie (Brigit Fasolino) is forced into prostitution, and his girlfriend (Kristen Gasser) moves closes to the play's shady life. The play's 13 characters, all feeling extreme alienation from one another, grope desperately for something stable (including each other) in an innately chaotic world. Of course, none of them find...
Behind the comfortable listening, the lyrics satirize suburban domesticity, grope tiredly for utopia and present existential dilemnas without the Sartreian seriousness...
Zhao comes calling on the U.S. "There is a saying," Premier Zhao Ziyang once remarked of his agricultural experiments in China's Sichuan province, " 'When you cross the river, you grope for the stones' But you must cross the river. You cannot just jump over it." This week Zhao will apply that delicate maxim to the troubled waters of Chinese-U.S. relations, which until three months ago were in their most turbulent state since Richard Nixon's opening to China in 1972. As he left Peking for his first visit to the U.S. and talks...