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...documents in his title essay, the most theoretically ambitious in the collection of reprinted articles. In "Work, Culture and Society," Gutman presents his most striking case for the reexamination of labor history, at least during the industrializing process in America in the 19th century. He concentrates on three important phenomena among the working class populations: the different work habits and expectations workers brought to new factories from their diverse backgrounds; the social and cultural continuities in the lives of craftsmen and artisans during America's industrializing period; and similarities between forms of American working-class collective protest and those...
...constructed a fish out of wood, with the shock organs made of pewter, but he was dissatisfied with the results, partly because the artificial fish gave off weaker shocks when submerged under water. Cavendish's conclusion was cautious: "On the whole, I think there seems nothing in the phenomena of the torpedo at all incompatible with electricity...
With the zest he showed plunging into everything from alcohol to psychic phenomena, from sex to theology, James A. Pike became America's most controversial 20th century clergyman. As an infant in Oklahoma, he won the Better Babies contest at the state fair two years running. In 1969, still hyperactive at 56, he got lost and died in Israel's Judean desert−and was the first Episcopal bishop ever to have three surviving wives attend the memorial service at his old cathedral in San Francisco...
...Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth is the world's largest denominationally affiliated institution of its kind, with a student body of 3,470). While Baptist theology remains conservative, and the "inerrancy" of the Bible remains a common article of faith, the Baptists frown on the emotional phenomena known as the charismatic movement. In the past year, six churches in Texas, Ohio and Louisiana were "disfellowshipped" by their local associations for supporting faith healing and glossolalia (speaking in tongues). "The mainstream of Baptist belief is not in sympathy with the tongues movement," growls President Weber, but true...
DeLillo's aim is to show how the codification of phenomena as practiced by scientists leads to absurdity and mad ness. It is not his fault that Pynchon is simply better at weaving advanced science and cartoon characters into a convincing whole cloth. Still, Ratner's Star, for all of its monotonic monologues, of ten displays impressive erudition and the same inebriated infatuation with language that worked so well in DeLillo's End Zone, his surrealistic send-up of football and warfare...