Word: writer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After graduating, I went to Ann Arbor. I knew that I wanted to be a writer. I loved the energy of SDS, whose center was there. I did not want to be a professional politico. I went from graduation straight to an SDS convention in New York. I was elected president of SDS right there...
...troubling, however, that in the process of laying bare the Big Bad City, Wolfe's paranoid style becomes dominant. For anyone who wants to expose society's inner workings, Wolfe can serve as model--a negative one, that is. The hip cynical writer is a channel one should avoid...
...particularly apt that a writer with such preoccupations about the individual in society is speaking to a theatre full of graduates-to-be; for each graduate soon becomes his own salesman--whether in drafting resumes or in coming off well during a job interview...
...inner workings of urban culture, Wolfe has drawn criticism for his treatment of minorities. Wolfe writes with palpable terror as his hero and mistress take a wrong turn and are forced to drive through a minority neighborhood. Some would call this telling it like it is, but the writer Howard Fast, for one, felt obliged to write to The New York Times to tell of his car breaking down in the South Bronx--and the helpful assistance he received from local residents...
Another acid-tongued writer once observed in a spasm of humanity that, "It is hard to laugh at people's need for romance and beauty"--a process Wolfe has made a career of. No matter what your avocation, you should take his advice. The best way to transcend the limits society imposes is to have sympathy when there is a knock on the door...