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...Literary issues are very much a counterpart to intellectual issues," said Leo Ou-fan Lee '70, "and, in fact, literature as a vehicle of social reform is very much alive...
...ambitious arrivals. When a group of Chinese recently bought a Flushing commercial building to renovate, the mood at the closing was strictly business. "The crane's already outside," said one of the buyers after the lawyers had chitchatted too long for her taste. "Get on with it." Richard Ou, a Taiwanese who now lives in Queens, runs a gift shop -- for now. Business turnover in Flushing, he says, "is very high. We are all so competitive. One year in business before selling out is not unusual." As soon as Ou sells, he plans to become a real estate broker...
...children shouting in Greek. This community gives a feeling of security." "Polish Greenpoint is comfortable, familiar," says Ponanta, the typesetter. "You stay as long as you need to, then move out to Queens, to Manhattan." Assimilation still seems inexorable. "We want to be part of American culture," says Richard Ou of Flushing. The Russian New Yorkers may keep eating piroshki forever, but, says Sima Blokh of the Brighton Beach public library, "they want to be Americans. The most important thing to the new immigrants is to read English...
That is because though the point may seem crucial to the narrative, it is actually insignificant thematically. What is important is, of all things, the echo. " 'Boum' is the sound as far as the human alphabet can express it, or 'bou-oum,' or 'ou-boum'?utterly dull," is the way Forster rather unhelpfully describes...
...same level of meaninglessness, symbolized India. The echo, in the novel, speaks thus: " 'Pathos, piety, courage?they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.' If one had spoken vileness in that place, or quoted lofty poetry, the comment would have been the same?'ou-boum...