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...disengaged itself from communal spaces, institutions and obligations. "The most skilled and insightful Americans," he wrote, "who are already positioned to thrive in the world market, are now able to slip the bonds of national allegiance, and by so doing disengage themselves from their less-favored fellows. The stark political challenge in the decade ahead will be to affirm that, even though America is no longer a separate and distinct economy, it is still a society whose members have abiding obligations to one another...
...this self-taught naturalist had produced the definitive guide Wildlife in America. Already, too, he was showing that he needed a lot of space, and wilderness, and clean water. His early novel Raditzer is an almost allegorical tale of a restless, artistically minded son of wealth -- Charlie Stark -- who goes to sea "unable to answer his own questions, and nursing ill-defined resentments" and finds himself irresistibly drawn to an orphaned ne'er-do-well who seems his shadow self. By the time of his next novel, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, the two sides are even...
Yeltsin was furious at the Congress for refusing to confirm acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, his handpicked architect of reform. When confronted with a stark choice of submitting or facing the President at the ballot box, the balky Deputies under leader Ruslan Khasbulatov became more inclined to deal. So, on reflection, did Yeltsin. By week's end he had agreed to submit three candidates for Prime Minister and modified his referendum. Although a popular vote would still be Yeltsin's to lose, Russians will not be asked to choose directly between him and the Congress. Instead, they will determine...
...purely musical sense, however, the collection is agreeably varied. Sometimes, the melodies are in violent contrast to the lyrics. The light, jangly movement of "The Boy with the Thorn in his Side" makes lines like "behind the hatred there lies a murderous desire for love" stand out in stark relief. On the other hand, "Ask," with its simple little message that "shyness" and "coyness" inhibit love, is reinforced by the bouncy (dare I say it?) hopefulness of Johnny Marr's versatile guitar...
...Judy Slattum (Chronicle; hardcover, $29.95; paperback, $18.95). According to the Balinese, their religion is monotheistic; but their God "takes as many forms as the sun has rays." The most dramatic of those forms are here, along with scores of other stark, comic or beautiful masks. Each is exquisitely carved; all express the yearning of an ancient and still dynamic culture...