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...future candidate take this to heart? Not according to him. "It made me smile," Obama recalls, "thinking back on Frank and his old Black Power dashiki self. In some ways he was as incurable as my mother, as certain in his faith, living in the same '60s time warp...
Back up a few paragraphs and look again at something Obama wrote in his memoir. It's that passing reference to his mother living in a "'60s time warp." No presidential nominee since John F. Kennedy has so lightly dismissed those turbulent years. What could the Summer of Love have meant to a 6-year-old in Hawaii, or Woodstock to an 8-year-old in Indonesia? The Pill, Vietnam, race riots, prayer in school and campus unrest - forces like these and the culture clashes they unleashed have dominated American politics for more than 40 years. But Obama approaches these...
...that they hear the concerns of women or religious minorities," says Altinay. "Even if they're banned, they will regroup under a new party banner and this trust issue will continue to haunt them until they deal with it head-on. Otherwise we'll be stuck in a time warp." Turkey has outlawed several predecessors of the AKP on similar grounds, although none of those ever enjoyed the popularity...
...Samuels begins his book with a preface that invokes the words of Tom Wolfe when he writes that there is something about “the warp of American reality that resists the rule-bound nature of fiction...
...superficial sense of security. The exterior goings-on of this “Pleasantville”-esque neighborhood renders its interior discord shocking. “Snow Angels,” while successful in its faithful representation of human relationships, suffers from some heavy-handed production choices that warp the bleak into the boring. Most notably, the ending drags on painfully as the climax gets buried beneath a long series of concluding scenes. Green manages to tie together each relationship’s loose threads—some neatly, some clumsily—but the time he takes...