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This essay offers the author's insights on his attitudes regarding his culture, self, and his values. The author states his attitude towards culture through the use of imaginary interview, wherein he says that people should find techniques which could address the social problem. He says that religion should be characterized with simplicity. He also mentions his attitudes toward Antioch College and "The Antioch Review."

Presents a personal essay which explores the author's experience in Antioch school

This article discusses the life and death of some modern celebrities in the U.S. Accordingly, the paper offers a details on the death of some celebrities like Kurt Cobain, Princess Diana, and Janis Joplin who were praised by an amazed and adoring television audience. Other celebrities cited in the article are idols and icons whose deaths have promoted the overuse of the word iconic in the journalistically driven world.

This article offers facts about Kenneth Bancroft Clark, an uppity Negro integrationist. On May 17, 1954, the U.S. High Court stated unanimously: to separate Afro-American children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone; Clark's research on segregation's harmful effects on the personality development of children was the lead evidence that the Court cited in its Footnote 11 to support its conclusion that the only way to end inequality between blacks and whites in U.S. public schools was to ban government's involvement with and in the enforcement of racial separation; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) lawyers were referred to Clark when they wanted to know whether there existed in the 1950s any social science that would help them persuade federal judges to declare segregated schooling; In 1950, Clark had presented his paper, The Effect of Prejudice and Discrimination on Personality Development; That research and the consensus view of the social scientists that supported the NAACP's claims about the harms of segregation was appended as a social science brief to the plaintiff's legal arguments in the segregation disputes from the states of Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware.

Comments on the controversy surrounding British poet Philip Larkin's papers. Larkin's collection of letters edited by Anthony Thwaite; Biography by admirer Andrew Motion; Attack on Larkin's poetry by English literature professor Terry Eagleton.

The poem "The Natural History of Secrets" by Austen Leah Rosenfeld is presented. First Line: Scraps of paper stapled to telephone poles; Last Line: you could make them into earrings.

Presents the poem "Robinson Sends a Letter to Someone," by Kathleen Rooney. First Line: Cento VIII; Last Line: Do you think this means anything? No more paper. Write.

This article discusses the author's experience of hearing the story of Aunt Virginia and the car from her mother. The author first heard the story of Aunt Virginia when her mother was teaching her to iron her father's handkerchiefs. The story of Aunt Virginia was a tragedy so complicated that it required her mother to concoct several distinct versions over the years.