Word: lasch
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...Merrill Markoe's portrayal of dating and marriage in the 21st century. Markoe, an Emmy-winning TV writer, is most recently the author of the essay collection What the Dogs Have Taught Me. We also resolved to challenge some assumptions about society's direction, a mission that historian Christopher Lasch handles skillfully in an essay on the shortcomings of progress, which was the subject of his 1991 book, The True and Only Heaven...
CONTRIBUTORS: Arthur C. Clarke, Christopher Lasch, Merrill Markoe...
...this year's campaign. California pollster Mervin Field says, "The public has a limited amount of problem space in their heads . . . If you're at a rally and you're worried about losing your job, you don't care to hear about family values." But the historian Christopher Lasch remarks, "To see the modern world from the point of view of a parent is to see it in the worst possible light." The deeper energy in the values argument arises from that parent's perspective upon the future. It makes them angry. It makes them unpredictable voters...
...phenomenon points to a void that our society has left in people's lives. They don't need Sartre to find existence meaningless. In New Perspectives Quarterly, author Christopher Lasch laments the loss of institutions of "organic unity" like family, neighborhood and religion, a loss to which "liberalism never had an answer...
...WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, THE woman who has accused William Kennedy Smith of rape has just begun to testify, and producer Bob Furnad is having a Maalox moment. After two days of mostly pallid testimony by other witnesses, prosecutor Moira Lasch has suddenly called the accuser to the stand. But Furnad, who is running the control room, has just learned that Terry Anderson, the last American hostage to be released, is scheduled to make his first appearance in Damascus at 3:30 p.m. -- smack in the middle of CNN's trial coverage. What should Furnad do: continue to cover the long-awaited...