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• Woodstock: An American Antiquity

  September 15, 2009

  • A recent editorial on Woodstock revealed something far more interesting (at least to me) about the remembrance of that event than any particular ruminations on its symbolic importance in history. Somewhere in the article, the author refuted the old joke about the ‘60s (“If you remember the ‘60’s, then you really weren’t there”) by saying that, whatever meaning the period ...
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• Memoirs of China: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

  April 4, 2009

  • [JOURNAL ENTRY, JANUARY 2005:] Here in Shanghai, the golden city that attracts opportunity-seekers from all over the country, you see a vast range of Asian faces. There are the square, flat-planed ones from the north; the almond-eyed, somewhat Polynesian ones from the south; and some that are so Western-looking that you know a Russian fell into the gene pool somewhere along the line. There are ...
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• Memoirs of China: Watching People's Faces...

  April 4, 2009

  • [JOURNAL ENTRY, OCTOBER 2004:] There are about a billion and a half Chinese, and they all seem to ride the subway at the same time that I do. Still, it’s interesting to watch people. In China, as elsewhere, girls who really like a guy always look at him in the same way. And when they don’t really care about a guy, they will look at him in a different way, but all with the same expression. ...
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