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Opinion: Can Oprah Help Restore Civility?

I have long thought that whatever else the wondrous worldwide Web is, it is a lunatic asylum, where mean-spirited cretins roam its dark halls and smash against padded walls spewing hate all over the place pretty much for just one reason: They disagree with you. I speak from first-hand experience. If you honestly believe...

Opinion: Words of Love for My Biggest 'Fans'

(Sept. 3) -- Here, and there, someone occasionally takes slight exception to something I say or write. I posted something, for example, about a gathering on a mall in D.C. and how, at the very moment it was to begin, a flock of Canada geese flew overhead, and what a beautiful, miraculous, sign that must have been from up...

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06/01/12 Ajimobi Counsels Critics Source: AllAfrica.com Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, Thursday replied critics of his one-year administration, saying that he had fared better than his predecessors and exhorted them to be constructive in their criticism of his government.
05/31/12 Diversion and Immersion: Escapism and the Reading of... Source: SF Signal "I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used: a tone for which the uses of the word outside literary criticism give no warrant at all. In what the misusers are fond of calling Real Life, Escape is evidently as a rule very practical, and may even be heroic. In real life it is difficult to blame it, unless it fails; in criticism it would seem to be the worse the better it succeeds. Evidently we are faced by a misuse of words, and also by a confusion of thought."
05/31/12 Eagleton's Favorite Criticism Source: The Daily Beast William Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930) was written in conditions almost as unusual as Auerbach's.
05/30/12 Grade expectations Source: Colorado Springs Independent - Colorado Springs CO On April 20, Box Office Magazine published Amy Nicholson 's review of the blockbuster The Avengers online.
05/23/12 Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at... Source: The New York Times - New York NY His stepson Cole Behringer said he died of natural causes in the long-term care facility where he had spent the last two years.