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...didn't talk a lot about," said Kouji Nakutu, 30, who was born in Tule Lake and left as a toddler. For the first 25 years of his life, he "went around denying that I was a Japanese American." He returned to Tule Lake because "I want to trace my roots...
...that science's only responsibility was to tell the truth. The idea that science is a social enterprise dates from the Industrial Revolution, when both scientists and politicians faintly began to grasp the impact of invention and technology on man and nature. "We are surprised that we cannot trace a social sense further back," writes Bronowski, "because we nurse the illusion that the Industrial Revolution ended a golden...
Staring Witness. At 6:35 p.m., as the first trace of smoke began to curl up from the dwelling, a black woman staggered out, her face puffed and cracked by the tear gas and a smear of blood showing on the back of her white blouse...
...mock epic about the career of Napoleon Bonaparte that sometimes reads like Dickens, sometimes like Tennyson and Wordsworth, with an occasional gash of Gerard Manley Hopkins' gold-vermilion. "The last section of the book is written in the style of Henry James," Burgess explains without a trace of solemnity, "because Henry James believed he was Napoleon when he was dying...
...problem is that these two realms of knowledge stand opposed. The "scientific method" for all its contributions to modern life remains "emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty." And Romantic knowledge stands outside shouting obscenities and muttering about human value spontanity and grace. Pirsig's chautuaquas trace this division of knowledge backward into antiquity. Then they move forward into a "root-expansion" of scientific thinking. He attempts a synthesis that unites Romantic and Classical knowledge and overcomes their fatal opposition...