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Oddly, this quality of spiritual longing, expressed with a great deal of hopefulness and uplift, gives Kinnell's poetry something of the affect of 19th-century religious verse, in which Heaven and angels are never far away. The difference is that Kinnell's paradises are earthbound, and sometimes found in odd places; in "Parkinson's Disease," for example, he describes a paralyzed old man, living in his daughter's care, as about "to pass from this paradise into the next." Here, being loved and cared for reveals paradise; elsewhere, it's found in sexual union. The book has three rather...
...reek of tin-plated noblesse oblige. When he signed the new law last week, the President boasted that it would help the poor rediscover the value of "work and family and independence." But the new system he brags so piously about provides few realistic ways for the poor to uplift themselves beyond insisting that they tug at their bootstraps. Clinton argues that those who still believe that the Federal Government has a duty to try to eradicate poverty should support him because Bob Dole would be so much worse. But as Jesse Jackson has repeatedly and unavailingly pointed...
...other "losers" in life, the poor, Scalia appears less sympathetic, consistently voting against claimants to government aid. Because welfare comes without the efforts at moral uplift that accompanied religious charity, he told an audience in May, "the result is often the elimination of poverty without the elimination of the vices that produce the poverty...
What is much more evident, however, is that the Republicans have taken care of their own and penalized those who tend to vote Democratic. Spending cuts in the G.O.P. budget fall most heavily on the poor. The litany of excisions has all the uplift of a requiem mass: reductions in welfare spending, ending welfare and Medicaid as absolute entitlements, reductions in the rate of increase in Medicaid assistance to the poor and in the rate of increase in Medicare, cuts in discretionary spending. All these affect those below the middle rung on the economic ladder...
...mass of folks going to the movies and buying records are in their teens, 20s and early 30s. The optimism of Forrest Gump rang false for a lot of us. The Lion King offered moments of uplift that faded when the lights came up. But hip-hop songs such as KRS-One's Build & Destroy, Gang Starr's Just to Get a Rep and Tupac Shakur's Holler If Ya Hear Me sound fierce and true, reflecting in mood and content the real world around me and many hundreds of thousands of fans...