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Daniel Bell dies at 91; sociologist wrote about 'post-industrial' society
Associated PressDaniel Bell, a leading sociologist of the past half-century who wrote groundbreaking books about the demise of revolutionary politics and about the economy and lifestyle of what he helped label a "post-industrial" society, has died. He was 91. Bell...Tags: Culture, Politics, Social Sciences, Documentary (genre), Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts)
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'How to Win a Cosmic War' by Reza Aslan
How to Win a Cosmic War
God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror
Reza Aslan
Random House: 232 pp., $26
In the essay "Movements and Campaigns," a tribute to the literary critic Irving Howe, the late philosopher Richard Rorty wrote that...Tags: Terrorism, Richard Rorty, Religious Conflicts, Philosophy, Civil Unrest
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L.A. is blase about the Big Three
Given that Los Angeles is the modern city most shaped by the automobile, it's remarkable that the impending economic implosion of at least two of the nation's Big Three carmakers has had so little local resonance.
After all, Wilshire -- our city's...Tags: Wage Contract Issues, Career and Workplace, Employees, National Government, Automotive Equipment
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Radically cutting a path from the past
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIs it possible to lead a dedicated literary life in the billionaire-filled, media-crazed New York of today? To be heedless of the material world as you burrow into novels and ideas the way the old Partisan Review gang did in the '40s and '50s, to come...Tags: Education, Dining and Drinking, Crimes, Greenwich Village, Literature
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Gore Vidal as Teacher
Times Book EditorGore Vidal has his work cut out for him. In order for historical fiction like his to work as literary art, it is necessary that it not be required to do all of history's work for it. History must be knowledge already held in common if the central,...Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Society, William Randolph Hearst, Sociology
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The ultimate self-doubter
Alfred Kazin By Richard M. Cook Yale University Press, 452 pages, $35 'I love to think about America," Alfred Kazin, 26, recorded in his journal in February 1942. He was finishing his canonical study of modern American literature, "On Native Grounds,"...Tags: Moby, Brooklyn (New York City), Yale University, Literature, World War II (1939-1945)
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'Arguing the World'
Times Staff WriterAt the beginning of "Arguing the World," a lively, incisive account of four of America's leading thinkers of the 20th century, documentarian Joseph Dorman tells us that when the quartet began arguing radical politics at the City College of New York, "they...Tags: Education, Politics, Death, Family, Movies
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