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...crazy theorist once suggested that video games are a Communist plot to distract our young people from their studies so that the United States would lose its competitive edge...
...some other time, it might have been difficult," said Johnson. "But [the English Department was] looking for a theorist...
...delighted about having her," said English Department Chair Robert J. Kiely. "We were going to have to look for a theorist soon, but now that place is well-filled...
Sure enough, the computers are byting, the satellites spinning, the Cuisinarts whizzing, just as planned. Yet we are ever out of breath. "It is ironic," writes social theorist Jeremy Rifkin in Time Wars, "that in a culture so committed to saving time we feel increasingly deprived of the very thing we value." Since leisure is notoriously hard to define and harder to measure, sociologists disagree about just how much of it has disappeared. But they do agree that people feel more harried by their life-styles. "People's schedules are more ambitious," says John Robinson, who heads up the Americans...
...persuasive as the arguments in favor of a change may be, to some they represent a diversion from more important matters. "This undue concern with our name is a reflection of our powerlessness," says Cornell University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., a leading literary theorist. "I don't really care what we call ourselves. I just want us to get economic and social equality...