Chemical Imbalance
Murphy, Peter E.
before me, like a trussed fowl: skew- atre" seems streamlined-the Merchant- ered through and...
...couple of colorful but completely superborhoods, of the storefronts and In fact, the extravagant language, with fluous characters (for example, an "old street corners, of the community its verbal detours and hyperbolic images, lady with a hand-basket") who are never centers, union halls, picket lines, and reinforces that impression of abundance heard from again...
...the city is a sort of adaptation is a reminder of George Or-Betty Burkes, President, Women's International League for Peace grand-scale version of the oddity-packed well's remark, in an essay analyzing and Freedom-USA pawnshops the author likes to describe, Dickens's characters: "There are no rules most notably, of course, in The Old Cu- in novel writing, and for any work of "A vital link for widely scattered groups riosity Shop, whose narrative actually art there is only one test worth botherof activists...
...By this test, Dick--Howard Zinn, historian and author ison, a medium like "Masterpiece The- ens's characters have succeeded...
...that launchPEACEQW0R1( red tape...
...as if it were a fire...
...you for example, seems almost absurdly tidy war room, the boardrooms, or the have to exult in the verbal conceits as when compared to the book's thickly newsrooms, but those of the you meet them, and you meet a profu- written first pages, in which we meet a livingrooms, kitchens, and neigh- sion of them...
...international perspectives...
...By compar- ing about-survival...
...public parks...The thought of being you get from Dickens's novels with their Of course, 150 years after the publi`an Ainerian citizen' without being a radical, feels empty, lacking, hollow, surfeit of characters and details...
...530 international...
...style that mirrors, in a way, the urban version may seem, to some people, a -Pat Farren, founding editor landscapes that form the backdrop for more soothing antidote to the frenzy of so much of his fiction...
...It's a cation of David Copperfield, the tidy TV and mechanistic...
...Its integrity is unshakable...
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...Reading a book like David es "David Copperfield's" first episode, "The key stories are nor chose of the Copperfield is a leisurely business...
...Dickens's London...
...resource listings, When the Times says even shyness is a trait www.afsc.org/peacew•rk...
...before me, like a trussed fowl: skew- atre" seems streamlined-the Merchantered through and through with office- Ivory-picturesque montage (a country pens, and bound hand and foot with lane, a berry on a twig, etc...
...Make check to AFSC/ Peacework...
...In any person in this country needs the are washing around in a metropolis like case, "Masterpiece Theatre's" handsome support of Peacework in their lives...
...Chemical Imbalance Another day on the wing for the depressed, where vivacious doctors watch you shuffle from one uneaten meal Monthly magazine from American to another, as they try to match Friends Service Committee, linking the elusive elements that will make you grassroots work with national and want to live...
...Countless sto- modern life (the Internet, you might say, "I believe every progressive, thinking ries-more than any author could tap- has become our Curiosity Shop...
...Send to: Peacework, Peter E. Murphy AFSC, 2161 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140 Commonweal 2 2 April 7, 2000...
...There is a history in the genes Detailed progressive calendar and that ignores all love...
...htm that resists conditioning, what hope is there for those 10 monthly issues: S20 (including who back away from life Canada & Mexico...
...Focus on social, economic, and racial justice...
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Vol. 127 • April 2000 • No. 7