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Shana Alexander (October 6, 1925 – June 23, 2005) was an American journalist. Although she became the first woman staff writer and columnist for Life magazine, she was best known for her participation in the "Point-Counterpoint" debate segments of 60 Minutes with conservative James J. Kilpatrick.

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The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of sports figures, ax murderers, politicians, and rock singers, the ever-running river of celebs, heavies, and oddballs that we use to spice up our own relatively humdrum lives has of late become a very watery gruel. Where have all the good guys and bad guys gone? Why does everyone out there look so gray?

Gone, Hero, Humdrum, Running, Sports, Villains

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.

Insects, Painted, Piazza, Tourists, Travel

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts. . .

America, Art, Quite, Ragged, Recently

Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.

Herds, Resource, Roaming, Today, Vigorous, World

Ours was the Togetherness Generation. We equated togetherness with salvation, and expected so much from it that it was bound to let us down. Companionship, security, lifelong physical and spiritual and emotional warmth - all were to be had for the twist of a ring and the breathing of a vow. And to be had no other way.

Breathing, Emotional, Expected, Marriage, Physical, Spiritual

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

Evil, Ground, Hard, Threatening, Understand, Villain

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

Fascinating, Interesting, Man, Men, Observe, Watches

The mark of a true crush. . . is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

Crush, Fall, I Like You, Love, Reasons

Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

Gossip, Like, Preposterosity, Rumor, Sound

Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.

Experience, Moral, Ought, People, Travel, World

Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.

Body, Connections, Lightly, Mind, Taken

the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

Away, Bags, Eat, Metabolism, Plastic

The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits -- all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium.

Aquariums, Drama, Entrances, Exits, Play, Watching

A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.

Begin, Get Well, Ideal, Reassess, Recovery, Sleep

Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.

America, Custom, Job, Jobs, Speaking, Wife

Good drama should sandpaper the mind.

Drama, Good, Mind, Sandpaper, Should

The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

Compelling, Eye, Image, Mind, Paradox, Reality

I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

Believe, Enemy, Lawyer, Men, Perhaps

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Excellence, Life, Love, People, Relationship, Truth

Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.

Children, History, Hope, Kids, Parent, Situation

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