How we choose to think about what lies ahead may be more important in creating a future we can comfortably inhabit than all the technological change tomorrow will bring.
James B. Twitchell on a man who sold America the goods
James Morris on one of America's most significant waterways
A MAN WITH
NO TALENTS:
Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer.
By Oyama Shiro. Translated by Edward Fowler.
Cornell Univ. Press.
139 pp. $21
Brian Hall on T. S. Eliot's poetry and love life
THE FUTURE WITHOUT A PAST:
The Humanities
in a Technological Society.
By John Paul Russo.
Univ. of Missouri Press. 313 pp. $39.95