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...Bachelorette is not morally instructive for grade-schoolers. But wallowing in the weaknesses and failings of humanity is a trademark of satire--people accused Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain of being misanthropes too--and much reality TV is really satire boiled down to one extreme gesture. A great reality-TV concept takes some commonplace piety of polite society and gives it a wedgie. Companies value team spirit; Survivor says the team will screw you in the end. The cult of self-esteem says everybody is talented; American Idol's Simon Cowell says to sit down and shut your pie hole...
DIED. LESLIE FIEDLER, 85, provocative literary and cultural critic, best known for the 1960 book Love and Death in the American Novel, which examined the psychological undercurrents, including the powerful, even homoerotic, bonds between male characters, and the exclusion of women, in the works of Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain and others; in Buffalo, N.Y. Fiedler wrote hundreds of essays, short stories and poems and helped inspire acceptance of American--as opposed to mostly British--literature in university English departments...
...Copeland Reader", which is 800 pages long, will include selections from the Bible, Shakespeare, Browning, Stevenson, Dickens and the Classics, with a varied selection from modern authors, including de la Mare, Barrie, Masefield, Mark Twain and Justice Holmes. In addition to the introduction, at the request of his publishers Professor Copeland will probably write a short interpretative comment to be inserted before each selection...
...Twain has chosen commercial success over artistic success because art comes from our hearts and souls, and it is obvious Shania has no soul. If she did, it would come through in her music. Lange and Shania have capitalized on her looks and body. Shania continues to insist that what she does has something to do with music. What a joke! MAGGIE JORDAN St. Louis...
Some people may think of Twain as a weird robot, but after watching her on a television interview, I felt that, along with being self-disciplined, she is refreshingly grounded and even happy. I applaud her for keeping her personal life private and separate from her career. KIM REMPEL Grimsby...