Volume 42, Number 7 · April 20, 1995
Home of the Brave
By Murray Kempton
Breaking the Surface
by Greg Louganis, by Eric Marcus
Random House, 290 pp., $23.00
The Almighty is presumed to pass His judgments and dole out His penalties to individuals, which allows us to suppose that nations are spared painful sessions with the Recording Angel. But if ours is ever so summoned, we may suppose that the inquiry into its cardinal sins might begin with the question: 'And why, America, did you, in your arrogance, teach so many of your children to hate themselves?'
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