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...more tip: Don't accept a free horse ride from a nomad; if you do, you are bound...
Pettigrew once started a short story with the title "Under the Big Sky." It was to be "an end of the world sort of thing." An anthropologist was going to be out in the desert somewhere, studying an obscure nomad tribe, when the rest of the world was destroyed by a nuclear holocaust. Suddenly these people living on the margins of the world, ignored by humanity, were propelled onto center stage--they were the only humans left, and the anthropologist's view of them changed completely...
...Western Isles of Scotland. Contemplating Margaret Thatcher's England, she reflects on the "frayed-/ out gradual of the retreat from empire." The Prairie is a reverie, expressed with extreme simplicity, on the peregrinations of her forebears from the Midwest to California and back again. "To be landless, half a nomad, nowhere wholly/ at home, is to discover, now, an epic theme/ in going back," she concludes. Clampitt is wisest when she is plainest. At her best, she writes poetry that, in Marianne Moore's words, "comes into and steadies the soul...
...scholarship. He does not attempt the intimate tone of Barbara Leaming's authorized 1983 biography or try for the high-skid finish of Charles Higham's Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius (1985). Citizen Welles covers more ground and digs deeper, revealing an artistic nomad whose life had too many ups, downs and lateral movements to be treated as a sales chart. The author is a great admirer, crediting Welles as an originator of the film noir genre and a technical pioneer whose influence can be detected in dozens of films. He even notes that...
Young scholars on the tenure track have found feminist theory a risky field of concentration. Despite her prominence, Catharine MacKinnon has been an academic nomad, journeying through seven law schools in the past decade. Last month she accepted her first offer of a tenured professorship, at the University of Michigan. Some feminists advise junior colleagues to nurture a reputation in safer areas of law before turning to their real interest. Increasing numbers of women, though, are ignoring this counsel. Declares Professor Martha Minow of Harvard Law School: "The lively response to feminist legal work confirms its power and its indelible...