![]() ![]() She begins teaching for the same UC system that will “shush” the faculty for incorporating progressive ideals in their curriculum-a mordant reminder that “academic freedom” is solely reserved for faculty who tow the line. Jane is his office mate, who out of conscience or consciousness, resigns. Dick is a conscienceless supervisor working at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and thus for the University of California who administers it. Her characters, Dick and Jane, spring from the mind-numbing Dick-and-Jane Readers, which were employed to teach many of us how to read and how to behave. Small stretches beyond the simplest binary opposition and examines the flaws in our thinking that got us where we are today: en masse suffering from the after-effects of atomic tests conducted on Bikini Atoll from 1946-1958 whose fall-out fell out all over us, from the mountains, to the prairies, and from sea to shining sea. ![]() Reviewed by Eckhard Gerde s in Pemmican Pressĭeborah Small’s stunning Routine Contaminations challenges the official and routine lies of 1950s Amerika. ![]()
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