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...while Jackson lauded the self-determination and courage of Allen, he told his audience not just to admire such dynamic figures but to get involved in the public sphere...
...aging hippies, the American civil rights movement isn't dead, it's just changing. Unlike the sit-in activists of old, today's civil rights leaders have shifted the focus of their lobbying efforts from policymakers to image-makers, reasoning that TV and movies are the most powerful sphere of influence in modern America. A watershed moment came Wednesday, when NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume shook hands with NBC president Bob Wright on a comprehensive plan for NBC to hire more minorities in its creative, production and business divisions. Most notably, NBC will add a minority writer to each show entering...
...that flourished more than a century ago, as Emerson was fading from the intellectual scene. In the wake of Darwin's theory of natural selection, some anthropologists started viewing all human culture--music, technology, religion, whatever--as something that evolves rather as plants and animals evolve. "In the mental sphere the struggle for existence is not less fierce than in the physical," observed the British anthropologist Sir James Frazer. "In the end the better ideas carry...
Part of the problem lies in the fractured nature of the campus landscape. Students inhabit niches--they chose to devote the bulk of their energies to one or two extracurricular pursuits. Regardless of what they accomplish in their particular fields, they rarely attain a prominence that transcends their immediate sphere of interest. As a result, there are star athletes, well-known writers, respected performers, and council powerbrokers, but rarely are there students who have built reputations that permeate the many sectors of undergraduate life...
...Barry Levinson's "trilogy" about his hometown of Baltimore, Md. After Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987) and Avalon (1990), he felt he had finished with tales about growing up in the city's Jewish neighborhood in the 1950s. But then an ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY review of his 1998 movie, Sphere, referred to Dustin Hoffman as a "noodgey and menschlike" Jewish psychologist. The racial stereotyping annoyed Levinson ("Nobody would say Mel Gibson was playing a Catholic industrialist in Ransom"), but it also got him thinking about his youth again. Rather than fume, he sat down and wrote for three straight weeks, imagining...