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Various intellectual currents reflect this shortage of civility in modern civilization. The "communitarian" movement, lately championed by Democratic and Republican leaders alike, aims to restore a sense of social kinship, and thus of moral responsibility. And various scholars and politicians (including Putnam) are now bemoaning the shrinkage of civil society, that realm of community groups, from the Boy Scouts to the Rotary Club, that once not only kept America shipshape but met deep social needs...
...working more," Terri says. "I have no life. The only thing that holds me together is my children. But I can't even afford to send my daughter to the dentist for a cavity." Terri is proud that she has never been on welfare, but she feels little kinship with the politicians who extol workers like her. "I feel lost," she says. "Now everything goes up but people's wages. Either you're rich or poor...
...practitioners as Daisy Zamora, Sekou Sundiata and Coleman Barks. But by ignoring specifics--by avoiding the poet's daily business of weighing word against word--he finally divorces most of the poets from their poems. Ideally, when the poet sits down to write he or she is claiming a kinship, however collateral, with Dickinson and Donne, Chaucer and Virgil. What Moyers too often gives us is the poem as self-therapy, and the poetry reading as a blend of A.A. meeting and encounter-group session...
Moreover, students can still erode the diversity of their education significantly within existing Core areas. Consider the following set of courses: "Tiananmen Square," "Chinese family, marriage, and Kinship: A Century of Change," "Tradition and Transformation in East Asian Civilization: China," "The Emergence of Complex Society in Ancient China," "Ancient Chinese Art and Religion," "Cultural China and contemporary perspectives" and "Confucian Humanism: Self-Cultivation and Moral Community. "These courses together fill seven (of a possible ten) different Core areas, but no one could call the total a part of a broad education...
...political problem, primarily," says Lester P. Lee Jr., a rent control activist who teaches American history at Wheelock College in Boston. "It's one of patronage. Patronage is when it flows primarily through a kinship network...