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...have respect for (women), in particular Latin women, who I think are very strong and in their own way they're duerias of the house. I think the book in a way came out of a meditation on what women have to deal with and some of their inner feelings...
...like to see [Cisneros] write a book about going to England. I think literature should do two things at least culturally, and that is to preserve the culture, but also get some insight as to how the culture interacts with other generations, with another culture, and also about the inner life of the writers. My only fear is that writers delegate themselves to this corner bodega. To escape the provincialism of roots and be expansive in the manner of a wonderful writer like [Jose] Lezama Lima, or [Jorge Luis] Borges or, for that matter, someone like Rudyard Kipling...
Heymann, who will fill the second highest post in the Department of Justice, said yesterday he shares Attorney General Janet Reno's aim of improving the condition of young Americans, especially those in high-crime inner-city areas...
...writer and editor helped shape this magazine for 30 years. His greatest legacy to us is the high standard of inquiry and fairness, of skepticism and decency, that he imposed on himself and on the magazine; he always reminded us when the scoundrel had been acquitted. He was inner-directed and mistrusted trends. He never failed to check writers' inclination to excess. As a colleague says, "In a conflict between poetry and truth, Ron came down on the side of truth." He hated what was false and had X-ray vision...
...Unity in Chicago, himself a former bellhop, bouncer, cabdriver, and child of an alcoholic. "A lot of baby boomers can relate to us. We've been through our / own recovery, and we're not on a pedestal." If a spiritual search is going on, it is for an inner child. In a room remarkably empty of religious paraphernalia, on a riser, behind the pulpit, an enormous teddy bear sits in the background. "The twentysomethings," observes Matoin, "are searching achievers. Working hard. 'I've got a condo, Rollerblades, but something's missing.' They've got prosperity but not peace of mind...