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...same time, a word that reminds us of ?the ironies and dilemmas, tragedies and glories of the American experience. Now, Randall Kennedy ?puts a tracer on nigger,? in order to identify its use and analyze the controversies to which it has given rise. With unprecedented candor and insight he explores such questions as: How should ?nigger? be defined? Is it more or less hurtful than any other racial epithet? Should blacks be able to use ?nigger? in ways that others should not? Should the law view ?nigger? as a provocation strong enough to reduce the culpability of a person...
...restore, reform and remake Harvard—a responsibility that requires his own best intentions and calls upon the wise counsel of the rest of the University. As my own time as an undergraduate winds down, I’d like to share with him the one fundamental insight that I have distilled from my Harvard experience, a sentiment I happen to share with many others who have passed through here. I feel strongly that if any one truth, one iota of Veritas, should guide Harvard under his administration, it should be Woodrow Wilson’s observation that...
...fundamental question that essayist and critic Vivian Gornick sets out to answer in her new book The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative. Inspired by 15 years of teaching personal nonfiction writing in Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programs, Gornick skillfully combines her own insight and experience from 30 years as a writer with models of nonfiction writing from some of the best writers of the modern essay...
...find the right tone of voice; the one I habitually lived with would not do at all: it whined it grated, it accused, above all it accused.” Yet once again, Gornick does not show any of the work that flowed from this newfound understanding, and her insight remains theoretical...
...Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History (Pantheon Books; 414 pages; $25), provides a deft survey of a dozen First Couples, from Edith and Woodrow Wilson to Laura and George Bush. Marton mixes some good history with a lot of pop marriage psychology to show the part that patience, tolerance, insight, determination, sex and occasionally even love have played in the pursuit and exercise of presidential power. Without the ladies, she argues, many of the men for whom Hail to the Chief has been played probably would have ended up as peanut merchants, obscure lawyers or morose ranchers. "[Lady Bird] made...