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...other play in American literature, Our Town opened the minds of the mainstream to nonliteral ways of telling a story. Unlike the domestic tragedy of Williams and Miller and O'Neill, Our Town took the sweeping view that a misspent life is not a pitiable exception but a lamentable norm. Life, Wilder argued, is almost too precious to be wasted on the living, who fritter it away in trivialities...
When lawyers "cease to see themselves as having a special mission in American society, they will begin to devalue the importance of holding on to an ethical norm," says New York University Law Professor Stephen Gillers. One possible result will be more regulation from outside, through courts, administrative agencies and even public shaming in the press. In the effort to turn into lean and mean competitors, firms have been cutting away the fat. They may be shedding something more valuable...
...camp classic to be mocked by stoned viewers at the midnight show in the local art house. The Zeitgeist of that generation is now wildly reversed. Public figures who used pot at that time express regret for the transgression. Political survival demands that they not offend the new cultural norm. Marijuana use now carries a moral taint...
...collide, the legal realm, it would seem, is a forum uniquely suited for the allegorical discourse of Black religion to express its faith in redemption and deliverance. The traditional reliance of legal discourse on abstractions such as "equal protection" and "due process" only further conceals the gap between American norm and reality...
...have such commuter marriages, says Fairlee Winfield, a professor of business at Northern Arizona % University. Despite the separations, some of which last ten years and longer, infidelity is apparently rare. Of 297 couples she surveyed, only 8% had affairs while apart; most polls put the national norm for adultery at about 26%. "The fact that they're willing to live with the arrangement indicates a high level of commitment to the marriage in the first place," explains Winfield. Also, she adds, "they're too busy with their careers and commuting back and forth...