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Dear Colleague Archive 1994
| Date of Letter | Topic Summary | ID |
|---|---|---|
| 1994-January-01 | "When did I first realize that I could be at home in the USA—insofar as 'at-homeness' is possible for someone like me at all? Answer: around 6 a.m., 1955, at a bus station."
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| 1994-January-15 | Special Rose Bowl Issue: "College football offers an interesting insight into society at large, namely, the usefulness of creating difference between groups as a preliminary step to establishing significant contact." | 154 |
| 1994-February-01 | "Most of us feel occasionally tinges of nostalgia for the past...Do we also feel guilt-ridden nostalgia for certain virtues of the past? Humility, for instance? Gallantry? Noblesse oblige?" | 155 |
| 1994-February-15 | On the nature of a liberal education: "Two approaches to the question 'nature of reality' have recently caught my attention..." | 156 |
| 1994-March-01 | Home and Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Vermont | 157 |
| 1994-March-15 | Core and periphery, and the domination of economies | 158 |
| 1994-April-01 | "In our time, the pressure to affirm equality is so great that we are quite willing to sacrifice fraternity." | 159 |
| 1994-April-15 | Regarding the effects of power, the mob, and God | 160 |
| 1994-May-01 | "...human geography has been subjected to the full blast of deconstruction. Its House of Intellect is in ruins or covered with graffiti. By contrast, the the House that physical geographers have built is still more or less intact..." | 161 |
| 1994-May-15 | "Who has an easier time in life—the Chinese devoted to form and image, or the Westerner devoted to content and truth?" | 162 |
| 1994-June-01 | On doing math, writing prose: the appeal of the unnatural | 163 |
| 1994-September-01 | Regarding Stephen Jay Gould's essay and the grisly aspects of popular news and literature: "we have all become so sophisticated that we live in fear of being caught saying anything good about God's creation." | 164 |
| 1994-September-15 | On the differences between living near campus in Minneapolis and Madison | 165 |
| 1994-October-01 | "Seeking comfort in ancestral shadows is natural when the present and the future are so dauntingly complex and open. The threat to Native American culture, at the deepest level, is not alcoholism or toxic waste...rather it is astrophysics and cybernetics." | 166 |
| 1994-October-15 | On death | 167 |
| 1994-November-01 | "America is both elitist and egalitarian." | 168 |
| 1994-November-15 | Part 1. On victimhood, minority status, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Part 1 | 169 |
| 1994-December-01 | Part 2. On victimhood, "Not all African-Americans like the idea of showcasing slavery, and those who do are not quite sure how to present it to the public." | 170 |
| 1994-December-15 | Regarding the historic class differences between height and weight and intellect, and how we adapted | 171 |
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