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Still, Sophie's World may not be for everyone. The characters are half- dimensional, the plot creaks, and Gaarder's prose (or the translation by Paulette Moller) has a distinct flavor of bark. As fiction, Sophie's World deserves no better than a D+. But as a precis of great...
But how well was that seed money spent? Poorly, says Lynne Cheney, who headed the NEH when the grant was approved. She is the most prominent of conservative critics who charge that National Standards offers what Cheney calls "a warped view of American history" and that its criteria for including...
...Will Tell the People sets out to explain precisely how and why American democracy has washed up on the shoals of cynicism. The complaint may sound familiar, but such a brief precis does not do justice to either the freshness of Greider's argument or the ambition of his approach. For this is not a book about negative campaign spots, the corruption of political fund raising or the self-destructive follies of the Democratic Party. To Greider these are merely symptoms of a much larger malady -- the systematic disenfranchisement of average Americans from the business of running their country...
To a nation reading it from the far side of the Viet Nam War, the most alarming passage was the one in which Kennedy promised to "pay any price ... to assure the survival ... of liberty." The revisionists have always seen that line as a precis of the mentality that brought...
Directors who make movies that are "ripped from today's headlines" must tread a narrow, tortuous path. Pay attention to all the political ambiguities and you risk putting your audience to sleep; turn history into histrionics and you anger everyone with a special interest. It is to the credit...