Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...though he were able to follow his characters into slang or thought disorder not because he identifies with their madness or participates in their emotion, but because he is such a knowledgeable and transparent narrator. From moment to moment, on the level of detail, DeLillo lets the reader understand, but he refuses to feel the material or to give it a larger meaning...
...Yeah, I do," he says, uncertain of what he thinks about this confusing topic. "I mean, I don't like to have limits, but I understand why there are limits. But when I'm being limited, I don't like...
...Huck and Tom endure in the American imagination. But they have a dark side too. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck's journey in the Delectable Land is also a drama of alcoholism, child abuse, young runaways, social breakdown, violence, hypocrisy, racism and a child's struggle to understand right and wrong in a society that has lost its bearings. Huckleberry Finn is still the best book about American childhood, as contemporary as a milk carton bearing the photograph of a missing child...
Crack, for example, is far more addictive and deadly than marijuana, the drug of a different generation. Strange fragments of violence come flashing out of the television set and lodge in minds too young to understand them. In New York City a five-year-old and his friend argue about 1) whether there is a Santa Claus and 2) what Liberace died of. In New Orleans a boy in first grade shaves chalk and passes it around the classroom, pretending it is cocaine...
...examining the changed shape of childhood may allow parents and children alike to understand it better. Each childhood is distinctive, the first chapter of a new biography in the world, and its truth is in the individual details. What follows is stories gathered by Boston Correspondent Melissa Ludtke over a period of four months, stories of five children trying to grow up in America in the late 1980s...