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First, allow me to back up and relate a conversation I had two months ago with a friend of mine, a Harvard student whose intelligence and integrity I deeply respect. We were studying in Beijing for the summer and, after a weekend excursion to Inner Mongolia, stood awaiting our return train from Hohot. Our conversation centered around the text of the following day’s lesson: an article from the People’s Daily, China’s main state newspaper, that criticized the social and economic structure of the United States. After venting my frustration over what...
...lawns; the canals are dirty; guides offering tours for an inflated price are maddeningly insistent. The colored engravings are chipped and in places have fallen off. In the basement, the graves of the Emperor and his beloved are off limits, the entrance blocked with untidy wire mesh. The inner sanctum smells of bats and pigeon droppings. Enormous beehives hang from the arches; black smoke stains mark where other hives have been burned off. The river behind the tomb is sluggish with sewage...
...Wall Street. He threw away nearly all of it. "The big socially significant characters were not coming alive," he says. Working in a small writing studio in Harlem, he says, "I literally extracted a more personal book from that one." The book he finally wrote focuses on the inner lives and dismal family dynamic of the Lamberts, a couple of whom were minor characters in the book he abandoned. Alfred, a retired railway-bridge engineer and basement-lab inventor, is a man sliding into the mental and physical chaos of Parkinson's disease. His wife Enid devotes much...
...Rose pause. Meanwhile, women can rejoice in the freedom of movement afforded by a silhouette that is as short on short skirts as it is on the spiky bracelets, studded handbags and other hard-edged accessories that were hot five minutes ago. Clotheshorses can get in touch with their inner sportswomen in sleek, graceful wools and leathers eminently practical for a brisk pony ride down Fifth Avenue or a fox hunt in the backyard...
...Weldon precedent knocks another hole in the crumbling wall between church and state - between the inner-directed editorial independence of writers and the other-directed product-shilling of the marketing people. The flow of traffic through that hole in the wall...