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Children and their eating habits are always a topic of conversation in my office. Most children go through phases when they are extremely picky and it starts during the toddler years. Picky eating is a normal part of child development. Your job as a parent is to provide your children with healthy, well-balanced meals. Your child's job is to decide whether or not to eat it. Sounds simple enough, right? But, many parents find themselves giving in to a picky eater. Some parents feel like they are short order cooks at mealtime trying to please everyone. Remember, your house is not a restaurant. My advice to parents? Don't feed the problem! Ignore it from the start. You control the groceries list and stock the pantry. You should let everyone in on meal planning so that every child can pick one meal per week that they "like".Try to prepare an assortment of foods with each meal so that each child can find something on their plate that they might like. Don't forget milk they should be drinking milk with every meal. Once the meal prepared, make the "no substitution rule". Let your child know that they don't have to eat, but that having meals together is part of being a family. Hang in there, it may take many months and lots of unhappy faces at the table, but over time you'll notice your child trying some foods you never dreamed they would. If they are REALLY hungry they will try a variety of new foods. Trust me...I've been there. I'm Dr. Sue with The Kid's Doctor helping parents take charge.


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Does it make a big difference whether I use all-purpose flour, bread flour, or high-gluten flour for the starter? I generally use high-gluten flour for my pizza (All-trumps) but made my Ischia starter with all-purpose.
Does it make a big difference ...
A related question: does it matter what flour you use for dusting fermenting dough balls or bench flour for shaping the skins? I use Caputo 00 for my dough but it's pretty expensive and if it doesn't affect the finished pie I'd just as soon use cheaper bench flour. (I'm also consistently using KAAP to feed my Ischia starter)


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Skip to comments.Trying to Get Even - Democrats keep betting on failure in Iraq.
Posted on 06/19/2006 2:51:21 PM PDT by neverdem
During last week's congressional debate over the war in Iraq, critics of the Bush administration's policy made three arguments: that President Bush more or less lied when claiming Saddam Hussein was a threat to the U.S., there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and that no progress is being made in the war there. All three assumptions rest on shaky ground, so it is remarkable how much critics have seized on them with such fervor and certainty--the very vices of which they accuse the war's supporters. Indeed, one wonders how Democrats would react if real evidence of weapons of mass destruction, say the discovery of chemical weapon shells, surfaced. Would they step back and re-evaluate their assumptions, or would they accuse the Bush administration of planting the evidence as part of a Karl Rove-inspired pre-election dirty trick? Far from politics ending at the water's edge, today's partisan battles seem to take on added ferocity when they concern foreign policy.
Let's examine the three assumptions critics of Mr. Bush's Iraq policy make:
Bush lied about Saddam being a threat. Both the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee and the independent Silberman-Robb Commission found not one case in which Bush officials, quoting the Senate committee, "attempted to coerce, influence or pressure analysts to change their judgments related to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capabilities." Recall that both the French and German intelligence agencies also believed Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
Just two months before the war, the Los Angeles Times reported that chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix "disclosed troubling new details about Iraq's weapons programs and expressed frustration with what he described as Baghdad's refusal to resolve long-standing questions about efforts to produce biological and chemical weapons, as well as long-range missiles." Mr. Blix later...
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Good article...thanks for posting.
This pretty much spells out the idiocy of the dems...
BUT, unfortunately, was written before today's idiocy re: the new bills the dems are planning to introduce this week.
I don't understand people like Fund. They engage in theoretical discussions about whether Hussein was a threat and then completely ignore the fact that Hussein was routinely firing missiles at our pilots in the leadup to the war. Shouldn't Hussein's firing of literally thousands of missiles at our pilots end the discussion as to whether he was a threat to us?
Betting on failure....now there's a way to win the hearts and minds of the American public.
Levin's is bad, Kerry's will be worse. But we all knew, didn't we, that they would ramp up their defeatist efforts when the progress in Iraq became so undeniably clear.
Is it just me or do Dems. want the US to lose in Iraq more than Al Qaeda does??
I don't comment on specifics of the no fly zones for security reasons, but I was there and you are right.
"0Is it just me or do Dems. want the US to lose in Iraq more than Al Qaeda does??"
Both groups want us to lose for political reasons.
There were no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.
From Fox News July, 2004
"We were mortified by the information that terrorists were looking for these warheads and offered $5,000 apiece," Dukaczewski said. "An attack with such weapons would be hard to imagine. All of our activity was accelerated at appropriating these warheads."
Dukaczewski refused to give any further details about the terrorists or the sellers of the munitions, saying only that his troops thwarted terrorists by purchasing the 17 rockets for a Soviet-era launcher and two mortar rounds containing the nerve agent [Sarin] for an undisclosed sum June 23.
WMDs were found, so the goal post was moved to say no stockpiles were found. I am still waiting for a response to the first italicized excerpt.
I think you are right. It is impossible to justify why they are doing this. Either someone thinks it is a winning stategy or they are so committed to the anti-war faction of the party that they will come home on their shields ("There, we died for ya.").
It has often been said that orientals, arabs (fill in the blank) "don't think like us". I'm beginning to believe that red staters and blue staters are two separate species!
Just remember, the ThugoRat moron traitors are never wrong. They will spin reality into a Star Wars episode. They are sick with negativism, hate, defeatism, and the fact they are so screwed up, they cannot get back into power. Let them keep showing their hate and traitorous behavior against America -- they will pay big in the upcoming elections as polls are already showing...
They would accuse Bush/Rove of planting it
The dems ALWAYS over reach
Well it was very apparent that the Kurds just fell down and died for no apparant reason, other than to further humiliate Saddam, The Hustler, Hussein. Or maybe they inflicted the chemicals on themselves and got a Kodak to remember the moment. (heavy sarcasm)
I agree! I think I relate to Arabs more than I relate to blue staters frankly! At least Arabs agree with me that when you fight a war you fight it to the finish and you fight it to win (even though Arabs rarely win wars.) Democrats don't seem to understand that notion.
No it's not just you
Only the Dems would want to pull out when we are winning the war
My question is .. why do they hate America so much that they would allow our country to be brought down to our knees by the Terrorists
If we pulled out of this War .. No Country and I repeat .. No Country would ever take us seriously again
Bring it on Dems, choose your weapons, just like 2004. We have O so much ammo.
No Country would ever take us seriously again.
The Democrats think that defeat in Iraq will reflect only on the Republicans.
If no country would take us seriously again and our brave, but smaller, allies were left to do the same, then the field would be cleared for world government brokered by the elites.
Oh, no. The dems are introducing a new bill? Well, I guess I did hear that but just shook my head and couldn't take it in because, as you said, it's such insanity.
Thank you for linking Fund's article; I'd heard Rush talk about it and then forgot to go looking for it.
I find the "war is going badly" trope highly amusing and irritating at the same time. In any war when you have defeated the opposing army, captured their leader, put him on trial, have helped put in place a democratic government, and have killed or imprisoned a high percentage of the "insurgents", how is the war going badly? Did people think that Islamo-fascists would give up without a struggle? I didn't, but everything considered, we have done very well. And when a firing squad puts a volley through the worthless body of Saddam Hussein, we'll be doing even better.
Betting on failure....now there's a way to win the hearts and minds of the American public.
"Democrats......Betting on Failure"
Perfect bumper sticker and talking point for the Pubbies
I remember that story and the short shrift it was given by the media. They claimed Saddam had no wmds. Well then our troops were attacked by "insurgents" who fired sarin gas projectiles at them. David Kay sneered at the news proclaiming them old. Now farmers in Europe are still being killed occasionally by old shells from WWI. But according to Kay, sarin gas is a harmless agent when it's not brand new. Completely ignoring the fact that our troops had Saddams's WMDS!!!! fired at us and a few of the troops had to be treated for exposure to the agent. But because the terrorists didn't know how to use them properly, the incident was not newsworthy to Kay or Big Media.
The obvious fact is that Hussein had wmds and he had every intention of making more of them. For use against us. The media is just ignoring the wmd elephant in the corner of the room.
Then they are dumber then dirt
This war is not about any party
It's not so much that Dems. hate America, though some do. It's that they hate Bush more than they love America and they view everything through that twisted prism. Whatever is good for America right now is good for Bush, and so with their skewed priorities they prefer to see America fail even losing a war than to see Bush receive credit or have something to build a legacy on. They seethe with such jealousy for Bush that they cannot see beyond their emotions regarding the man. And so their wishes and desires are all centered on wanting to see Bush fail regardless of what that means for the nation. It's sick and depraved.
I have seen John Fund on some TV talk shows, where I feel like he has kind of "liberaled up" his views, but on this article, I agree with him.
(Trying to Get Even - Democrats keep betting on failure in Iraq.)
If they believed in God they'd pray for it too.
Whereas the current Iraqi regime has demonstrated its continuing hostility toward, and willingness to attack, the United States, including by attempting in 1993 to assassinate former President Bush and by firing on many thousands of occasions on United States and Coalition Armed Forces engaged in enforcing the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council;
What amazes me though is that our side never raises these facts as a rebuttal to the libs' claims that Bush 'lied' us into the war. If you say to a lib that we went to war against Hussein because he had already declared war on us by firing on our pilots -- there are only 2 ways they can respond. Either they can argue that the missile attacks on our pilots weren't serious enough to justify our going to war, or they can argue that our pilots deserved to be shot and, thus, the missile attacks didn't present a valid reason for us going to war. Either argument is political suicide, which is exactly why they need to be forced to confront the issue.
In addition to the activities detailed here on Iraq's attempts to develop delivery systems beyond the permitted UN 150km, ISG has also developed information on Iraqi attempts to purchase proscribed missiles and missile technology. Documents found by ISG describe a high level dialogue between Iraq and North Korea that began in December 1999 and included an October 2000 meeting in Baghdad. These documents indicate Iraqi interest in the transfer of technology for surface-to-surface missiles with a range of 1300km (probably No Dong) and land-to-sea missiles with a range of 300km. The document quotes the North Koreans as understanding the limitations imposed by the UN, but being prepared "to cooperate with Iraq on the items it specified". At the time of OIF, these discussions had not led to any missiles being transferred to Iraq. A high level cooperating source has reported that in late 2002 at Saddam's behest a delegation of Iraqi officials was sent to meet with foreign export companies, including one that dealt with missiles. Iraq was interested in buying an advanced ballistic missile with 270km and 500km ranges.
excellent post!
They want to lose this war in Iraq because there is a Republican that they hate in charge of it. It is that simple. America's loss in Iraq is the Democrat party's gain if it makes and GOP President look bad and helps the Dems win elections. They are traitors. Period.
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Hi All,
I got into the spirit of things and put on a new cd I recently bought of Christmas music by Michael Buble. Not bad. His rendition of Ave Maria is excellent. Then I got to thinking about the vinyl my parents left me. So I went through that. I don't have any Christmas music. They had albums from the 1950's and 1960's and they are GONE! I was so angry. I have no idea where they could be either. A few albums had some singers singing O Holy Night and that made me angry then and a whole album by Harry Belafonte gone too.
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Positional Parameter demonstration
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An example of this testing method could be as follows:
import cherrypy class Root: def mytest(self, param_1=None, param_2=None, *args, **kw): return repr(dict(param_1=param_1, param_2=param_2, args=args, kw=kw)) mytest.exposed = True cherrypy.quickstart(Root(), '/', config={'server.socket_port': 8080})
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You'll notice that the last URL will cause a 500 error. This is because the first part of the URL after /mytest (i.e. 'foo') is given as the value for param_1 and you are also passing param_1=baz using the URL parameter. Effectively you are defining param_1 twice which is just not very useful.
The conclusion to the above example is simply this: Take care when naming your method's parameters so they will not overlap with explicit keyword parameters.


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Labor Day was first celebrated in 1882 by labor unions, and in 1894 was declared a national holiday. Labor Day observes the strength, hard work and dedication of America's workers.
The Marquette County Labor Council is sponsoring the 24th annual Labor Day Festival Sept. 2 in Ishpeming starting with a parade at 11 a.m. along Euclid, Main, Division Streets and Lakeshore Drive. There will be a picnic and rally from noon to 4 p.m. at the Cliff's Shaft Mine Museum and Lake Bancroft Park.
As we celebrate and stand together to say "Labor: Still Standing Strong" with communities from across the country, we recognize the challenges ahead. Wall Street CEOs are on top, while America's middle class still is suffering. Living wages are not equal to the increased cost of living, and many of America's workers still are unemployed or underemployed. America's workers did not create this mess, but we are the ones who are paying for it through unemployment, layoffs, home foreclosures, and the threat of social services and safety nets being cut. Our members of Congress need to put the American people first instead of politics and get people back to work. We need policies, legislation and ideas that invest in training and retaining our workforce.
This year, I want to dedicate Labor Day to parents who work without paid sick days and other family-friendly policies. Working without paid sick days not only takes away economic security from families, it hurts our communities and leaves long-term damage. Many parents who work without paid sick days lack job security, leaving them and their families vulnerable to income loss and poverty.
The labor movement helped establish and maintain America's middle class. Through collective bargaining for a living wage, health insurance, retirement security and workplace safety measures, unions have stood the test of time and fought tirelessly for working America. This Labor Day, let's honor all of America's hardworking people and continue to fight for them-not just on this day, but every day.
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I believe in the ideas of Obamacare as being better than doing nothing to correct our health insurance system. Difficulties, such as the poor performance of the website, should be peacefully worked on and fixed without bashing the President. Problems along the way are to be expected and need to be worked on, not as a cause of panic and retreat.
I believe that the main reason for the cancellation of some insurance policies is that the programs need to include more services for the patients which now are not being covered, such as women's care, children's care and urgent care, etc. These policies should be looked at for their faults and should be changed to better policies. Insurances that provide good, comprehensive coverage should be allowed to continue if the people want them.
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When the Federal Reserve announced QE3 on Sept. 13, it said that the purpose of this monetary stimulus program was to bring down long term U.S. Treasury yields and the rate on the 30-year fixed rate mortgage.
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It seems that the Congressional agreement to compromise on the fiscal cliff shifted the sentiment to "risk on" from "risk off" during last Friday's trading.
TLT (125.66): At Friday's close TLT was up 6.6% since Sept. 14, and was still up 6.1% after Monday's weakness in TLT. As the table above shows TLT outperformed SPY, GLD and XLE since QE3 was announced. My semiannual value level for TLT is 122.20 with a weekly pivot at 126.16 and monthly risky level at 129.39.


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Take a moment to walk with the average young person to see what he might encounter during a typical day. As he visits his Internet homepage, his eyes are assaulted with images of half-dressed celebrities, parading the sin of an independent, immoral lifestyle. The DJ from the local radio station accompanies him on the way to school. It's usually someone with a crass sense of humor, filling his mind with contemporary lyrics that promote the way of folly. Along the road, he's exposed to billboards and advertising designed to arouse lust and create discontentment. Any time he spends with the world's entertainment portrays a very realistic form of make-believe. The typical television programs and movies glorify the mysterious and exhilarating life of the rebel—he's defiant and witty, violent and sexual, rich and playful . . . and utterly godless (but never mind the consequences).
Get the picture? Before many teenagers arrive at school, their minds are already pondering the messages of all the images they've seen and the voices they've heard. And that's before eight or more hours of teachers and peer influence. It's a daily exercise in mind pollution.
It's no secret that our age in particular has turned defiance into a virtue and made obedience something to be mocked. This warped and rebellious worldview comes through in every aspect of popular culture. Entertainment, music, and even newscasts glorify revolt and rebellion against every form of authority. Statistics show that the average child living at home in America watches at least twenty-eight hours of television each week. (For some kids, the total is much higher.) Programming that targets young people is often the very worst at deliberately glamorizing sin. By the time most teenagers graduate from high school, they've been overexposed to the grossest kinds of evil through "entertainment" media in mind-numbing ways—so that nothing seems particularly appalling anymore.
What's the predictable result? Drug abuse, violent crime, sexual promiscuity, and other forms of lawlessness are at epidemic levels among teenagers. Large, disturbing subcultures exist among young people who practice bizarre forms of body modification (such as tattooing and piercing), immerse themselves in occultism, or openly practice other forms of antisocial behavior. Sin and rebellion have taken society captive, and their tragic effects are most vividly apparent in the culture of our young people.
Yet millions in society—especially among those in control of the entertainment media—glory in the evil. The apostle Paul prophetically foretold times like these. He wrote to Timothy:
Know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! (2 Timothy 3:1-5, italics added)
Know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! (2 Timothy 3:1-5, italics added)
It's fitting that rebellion against parents is at the heart of that list of evils, because virtually all the other sins listed (especially self-love, thanklessness, a lack of self-control, headstrong haughtiness, and hedonism) are inevitable fruits of youthful rebellion against parents. A culture of rebellion breeds every other kind of sin as well.
And that is why we are living in an age of moral anarchy. That is the culture in which our children are growing up. Although the wise parent will minimize a child's exposure to the evils in the world, there's simply no way to isolate or insulate our children completely from all those corrupting influences—suggestive images and compelling voices. But even if we could raise them in a protective bubble, that wouldn't solve the problem. Our children are fallen creatures, naturally drawn to evil.
So as you can see, it's a perilous walk for the typical teenager as he travels through his fallen world. Like the sirens of Homer's Odyssey, beautiful voices entice him to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin—"Resist authority. Taste forbidden pleasures. Take control of your own life." But one voice stands apart, contradicting all the rest with stunning boldness. God commands young people to a simple, yet profoundly wise way of life: "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right."
Even though that command comes at the beginning of a new chapter in Ephesians, it's a continuation of the same subject Paul had been discussing. He was moving systematically through the family, describing each family member's duty, and showing what mutual submission means in the context of the family structure.
Children, of course, are to show submission by obeying their parents. This is one of only a handful of texts in Scripture that directly address children in particular (see also Exodus 20:12; Proverbs 1:8-9; 6:20; Colossians 3:20). Virtually every time the Word of God speaks to children, the message is the same, aptly summarized by Ephesians 6:1-3: "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 'Honor your father and mother,' which is the first commandment with promise: 'that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.'"
In verse 2, Paul was quoting the fifth commandment from Exodus 20:12: "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you." That commandment is the turning point of the Ten Commandments. The first four commandments describe aspects of our duty to God: have no other gods; make no graven images; don't take the Lord's name in vain; and remember the Sabbath. The remaining six commandments spell out our duties with respect to other people: honor your parents; do not murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not bear false witness; and do not covet.
The starting point, the foundation for all earthly relationships, is the child's duty to honor his or her parents. Since that is the first relationship we ever experience, it's the first moral principle every child needs to learn. It's fitting, therefore, that the leading commandment in the Second Table of the Law governs the parent-child relationship.
As the Apostle Paul pointed out, the fifth commandment is also "the first commandment with a promise." In fact, this is the only one of the Ten Commandments that comes with a promise. Two other commandments (the second and the third) are accompanied by threats. The fourth commandment is followed by and extensive explanation of the reason for the commandment. But "honor your father and your mother" is the only commandment with a benediction for those who keep it.
It's a promise of long life, blessing, and prosperity. Writing under the Holy Spirit's inspiration, Paul brought together the promise of Exodus 20:12 ("that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you") with the fuller language of Deuteronomy 4:40: "that it may go well with you . . . and that you may prolong your days [on the earth]"—so that there are two parts to the promise. On the one hand, it promises quality of life (that it may be well with you). On the other hand, it promises length of days (and you may live long).
The "promise" was a divine pledge to the Israelites as a nation. As far as individuals are concerned, this is really more of a maxim than an ironclad surety. In other words, it is a truism, not a guarantee. Some people honor their parents and die young anyway. There have undoubtedly been cases where people who have despised their parents' authority have nevertheless lived to old age. But as a general rule, the principle is true. Rebelling against parents has built-in consequences that tend to shorten one's life.
The apostle Paul's instructions to children in Ephesians 6 are notable for their straightforward simplicity. There's no long list of duties, no complex set of instructions—just one simple command: "Obey your parents." Of course, all other duties—such as love for God, love for brothers and sisters, love for neighbors, and all other important moral precepts—will be covered by this rule if the parents simply do what they are commanded in verse 4: "Bring them up I the training and admonition of the Lord." Children who learn how to obey their parents will thereby also learn to obey God. This highlights once again the supreme importance of a Christian family.
In a future post, we'll get a little more specific about children obeying their parents. For now, here are a few questions to discuss in the comment thread:
Tackle one or all, but join in the discussion. Your comments are often helpful to others who are struggling through the same things you face as a parent.
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umm, when I was little. I was emotional abuse by my dad as a kid. I
was a brat and hateful as a kid. I hated people for a long time and
when I read the bible. It took time for Jesus to open my eyes and my
heart. I learned to repent of my sins to Christ and learned forgiveness the hard way. Jesus is merciful! Yes, I do feel guilty but I need to always remember my past sins are forgiven by the Lord. He removes it far from me. I learned a lesson of life what God wants from me. I am still growing and learning. I know sin will remain in me until I die. I need to ask Jesus to forgive me and forgive others daily, I started to learn that as a teen. I did'nt know forgiveness when I was a child!
Even I was made fun of in school but I forgave them when I learned about Jesus said about forgiveness.
We need to teach children forgiveness when they are young. So they will honor their parents, as well the Lord too.
God bless JM for his faithfulness to Jesus.
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Hello my name is Michael Peters I have some incite to share on this dilemma happening to the youth in America and all over the world. I became a Christian last October, I'm 20 years old. I never learned to obey my parents as a young boy. My parents are not Christians or my family. I think a big reason kids are becoming disobedient is because parents are not disciplining their children. It is no longer lawful for parents to give their children spankings or the rod. My father never disciplined me as a young boy so i rebelled and became defiant. He did not assume position as godhead of the family because their is no God in my family. He gave a superficial love that did not punish or reprimand disobedience. I care for my family dearly and i am learning to live with them but that was a major sin that i grew up dealing with and my sisters still struggle with. I now am overcoming that sin with the power of The Holy Spirit, Jesus, and The Father and Gods word. Even now i still struggle with it at times. I am so blessed to be forgiven of how disobedient i was and still am so i just thank God and confess my sin and ask for forgiveness when I fall short. Praise our loving, merciful, holy God who would save a wretch like me.
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Question: How do Eph 6:2-3, Prov 1:8-9, and Prov 6:20 apply to Christian unmarried children ages 21-24 not living at the home of their Christian parents?
Children living away from home are still under the same obligation to honor their parents as children living at home. I am a grown man who is married with a family and I still honor my parents as it were.
Generally, when folks ask about children not living at home, it is believed they are no longer under any obligation to honor their parents or the parents are no longer obligated to "make" them honor them by discipline. Obviously, the type of honor a young adult of 21 will give to his or her parents will be a bit different than say a kid of 9 years, but children can still honor their parents. The relationship is a bit different. Certainly a 25 year old doesn't go to his father to seek his permission to buy a house or to figure out which college courses he is going to take during the year. But I would hope a young adult like that would honor his parents by seeking their wisdom and carefully considering their advice.
God's providence brought me to this article and I praise Him for it..
I am Bronson and I am 20
Right now I go to a community college where I am bombarded with worldly attitudes and ideas. I find it incredibly hard to keep a dominance of Christian influence in my life. I praise God I can come to sites like this for reformed edification. Cultural things that I have to battle are immodesty, foul language, and frivolous lifestyles(even from within the church). It only takes moments of a lackadaisical attitude to start being sucked into it..
One side effect of this situation is a clouded mind.. sometimes so many ideas are thrown at me that I just need to stop and meditate on the perfection of God's Character because although I don't have all the answers and refutations, but I know that God is faithful.
WOW almost missed the biggest one; tolerance. Everyone always wants to be tolerant. The whole post modern spiell...
Hope that answered question number 2
I am a 60 year old mom who spent a good many years working alongside my husband in youth ministry. We watched a very drastic decline in standards for the youth in a very short period of time. I find that most parents rely too heavily on the youth pastors/leader to help direct them in parenting in spite of the fact that most youth leaders are barely more than youth themselves. I watched reverence for God disintegrate under these 'youthful' well-intentioned pastors. We saw the disrespect for adults increase dramatically. It was way more cool to be relevant with the culture than relevant to God. When leadership is reduced to that standard, it becomes totally irrelevant to God's purposes for our children. Is it any wonder that our kids are dishonoring their parents when even role models in our churches can't even honor God's Holy Word? It might be wise for the change in honoring parents and authority begin in the church.
I am almost 40yrs old, and I live with my parents. I do have a greatest
responsible to care for them and do chores around the house. I am very
good with my hands in garden. I cook too. Smiles. I am deaf and it takes
time for some deaf people to get on their own. Good suggestion. Yes, I
have to honor my parents until end of my parents' time or my time.
Sometimes I am not sure when someone rebels against tradition if they are always rebelling against God or just against human conventions apart from God. For example if a child wanted a "south-at-the-top" map, a calendar with Wednesday to the left of Tuesday, or a book with right-side binding - I wonder if that would be a rebellion against God or just against a society that he or she considers to be too narrow or mechanical in areas that are not connected with moral or spiritual purity. I guess I am getting at the tension between rebellion against God and agains human traditions that are not directly discussed in the Word of God.
If a child wanted to use a "south-at-the-top" map, or a calendar with Wednesday to the left of Tuesday, or a book with right-side binding would not necessarily be acts of rebellion unless he expected society to conform to his standards just because that is the way he likes it. That would be selfish and arrogant which would be rebellion against God's standards. Proverbs 8:13
Rebellion does not have to knowingly or directly be against God. All rebellion is about self. What do I want or what pleases me attitude. As Christians we are to be about seeking for others rather then ourselves and that seeking is always to be in line with God's precepts, not some strange or new fad. Anyone who seeks to stand out is glorifying themselves rather then God and that is rebellion. Rebellion can be carried out on an individual bases or by a group but it is always about self. What pleases me! Rebellion does not have to directly hurt or seek to change another, but it is always about self. One more thing. Even when rebellion is not directed towards God in the consciousness of a person, it is still always against God. No one's actions can stand apart from their relationship with God. All actions speak to how we feel about or honor God. We either follow in His precepts or we rebell. All actions we take are either for Him or against Him. We are to do all we do in the name of the Lord, not for our own pleasures or whims. This all children need to learn at a very young age.
In response to question 2, I recently finished college and the most difficult pressures for me to avoid as a Christian were not the outright temptations of the world (sex, drugs, drunkenness), but the ones I did not recognize as coming from the world because they slipped in through the body of believers.
By this I mean attitudes and beliefs that had invaded the mindsets of a majority of believers my age (Emerging church stuff) and because it didn't have the obvious outward appearance of sin, it could slip right in. Unfortunately for me, these worldly ideas and attitudes wreaked all kinds of havoc in my life by disintegrating my Christian walk from within, therefore making me more susceptible to the more obvious temptations of the world.
I mourn for my generation of fellow believers who are being mislead by all kinds of false and deceptive teachings, disguised as Christian or more enlightened, but are really just creating pride, self-centeredness, and getting them away from the Bible.
Dr. MacArthur's books like Charismatic Chaos and The Truth War have really helped me see the truth of what is going on, and as a result I am finding solid ground again by trusting in the Word of God and not my feelings or experiences.
Here is a short list of some of these attitudes/ideas that young believers are pressured to adopt inside and outside the church:
1. Focus on doing good deeds, not truth. Loving people and doing good works is more important than what you believe. (Truth is ignored and avoided even though it is the reason why you do good deeds.)
2. Postmodernism--"How can you know anything for sure? How can anyone claim that something is absolutely true? Isn't that arrogant?" There is pressure to avoid saying anything is true because God said it in His Word.
3. Seek to EXPERIENCE God, rather than know Him through His Word.
4. God is all about you and making you happy.
Prayer for the children.
O Lord,
Bless the little ones. Protect them and nourished them. Show them
the way that You want them grow. Provide wisdom for godly men and
women to raise them up the way You want. Those whom are lead astray,
help them back by Your power. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Parenting today is challenging to say the least. Thank God we as christians have and instruction manual,(the bible),we just need to read it, study it, and then ask the Holy Spirit to help us by giving us the power to do what the manual instructs. I think we have to strive to be parents and not friends to our children, as godly parents our children will not always like us but I believe they will one day thank us and love us for being true godly parents. This means we must learn to trust God's way for raising our children and not be afraid to say no to them. It also means we will not be the popular parents in our society, but that's not our goal. Our goal is to reproduce after our own kind,(more born again belivers), we must make sure we introduce our children to Jesus Christ and not just to the pastor and the church. Our children need to have a relationship with the Father through the Son as early as possible. To many parents are happy that their children are in church, but to be in church and not in Christ is not enough for them or us. We must counteract the influence of the world with the influence of God's Word, the examples and teachings of parents through a godly lifestyle and through family bible study and prayer, along with attending a good bible-believing, bible-teaching church will help to minimize the influence of the culture and mamimize the influence of God's Word. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
I agree with Jean. It also has to do with the youth pastors. If the youth are gonna grow in God, they also need godly youth pastors who are willing to teach them and be role models. And another thing is true, that it is not his job alone...but the parents' job also. Parents must not think that it is up to their pastors to teach their kids about God and how to live. They expect them to learn every Sunday...but for the rest of the week, no one is teaching them, reminding them, guiding them in God's Words...that is the parents' duty and also the youth's duty.
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Kureishi, Hanif
Hanif Kureishi 1954-
British dramatist, novelist, screenwriter, essayist, and short story writer.
The following entry presents an overview of Kureishi's career through 1999. For further information on his life and works, see CLC, Volume 64.
With the critical success of his screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette (1986), Hanif Kureishi emerged as a provocative young chronicler of xenophobia, sexuality, and urban adolescent angst in contemporary Britain. His multi-genre creations—including films, novels, short stories, and plays—are largely informed by his own experiences as an English-born Briton of Pakistani descent. Drawing attention to the problem of racial prejudice and cultural displacement among non-white Asians in modern England, Kureishi's darkly comic critiques of postcolonial British society illustrate the confluence and conflicts of ethnicity, sexuality, religion, and class. With London's hedonistic drug and music subculture as a recurring milieu, Kureishi's fiction and films are permeated with references to pop culture trends, fashions, movies, and music, as well as other literary and cultural markers. His multicultural perspective and casts of disparate, unconventional characters underscore the sociopolitical biases and personal ambiguities that shape one's identity in the modern Western world.
Biographical Information
Kureishi was born on December 5, 1954 (some sources say 1956), in the London suburb of Bromley. His Pakistani father, a clerk and political journalist, arrived in England from Pakistan to attend college, and subsequently met Kureishi's white, English mother. During the 1950s and 1960s, England received its first great influx of black and Asian immigrants, and at school Kureishi experienced a backlash of racism from some of the native English. As a teenager, he found an outlet for his emotions in fiction, writing four unpublished novels. He went on to study philosophy at King's College, London. As an apprentice in London theaters, Kureishi spent his time devising plays and, to supplement his income, writing pornography for magazines (under the pseudonym Antonia French). His first play, Soaking Up the Heat (1976), was produced at London's Theatre Upstairs, followed by The Mother Country (1980) at Riverside Studios, for which Kureishi received the Thames Television Playwright award. Kureishi was appointed a writer in residence at the Royal Court Theatre, which produced his play Borderline (1981). During a 1985 trip to Pakistan to visit relatives, Kureishi not only gained insight into Pakistani culture and the experiences of Pakistani immigrants, but also came to accept the English aspect of his identity. The following year My Beautiful Laundrette premiered. Directed by Stephen Frears, the movie was originally made for British television and later released for the theater. Kureishi received several major awards for his contribution, including a Best Screenplay Award from the New York Film Critics Circle and an Academy Award nomination. Kureishi and Frears continued their partnership with Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987), before Kureishi took over the directorial duties himself to make London Kills Me (1991), a film based on his screenplay. In between these film productions, Kureishi published his first novel, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), which received a Whitbread Book of the Year Award. He has since written two additional novels and two collections of short stories, and co-edited The Faber Book of Pop (1995).
Major Works
Kureishi's preoccupation with issues such as race, class, and sexuality pervade his plays, motion pictures, and fiction. For his early play Borderline, Kureishi conducted research in the Southall area of London, interviewing Indian and Pakistani immigrants. The drama looks at the situation of these immigrants in post-imperial Britain, examining the conflicts between both immigrants and the native population and immigrants and their Westernized children. The drama Outskirts (1981) focuses on the lives of two former school friends, Del and Bob. As teenagers, they assaulted an Asian immigrant, an incident that still haunts Del, who has since become a teacher. Bob is unemployed and his prejudices lead him toward the racist National Front. Kureishi's screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette is similar to a drama in its construction. The film's story explores cross-generational tensions within immigrant families, racial violence, and unemployment in Britain under the conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher. The film's protagonist, Omar, is the son of a Pakistani immigrant who was once a respected journalist in his home country but is now an unemployed alcoholic in Thatcherite Britain. Although his father wants him to attend college, Omar accepts a job with his capitalistic uncle Nasser, who has him take over a failing laundromat, or laundrette. Using stolen drug money to finance the project, Omar renovates the laundrette with the aid of Johnny, a punk who forsakes his friends for the work and love offered by Omar. In addition to its frank portrayal of homosexuality, the film also candidly depicts Nasser's adulterous relationship and the promiscuity of Nasser's independent-minded daughter. Kureishi's next screenplay, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, describes the events that occur after Rafi Rahman, a corrupt Pakistani political figure, arrives in London to live with his son, Sammy, an accountant who resides in the racially violent area of Brixton with his wife, Rosie, an English social worker. The author's third script, London Kills Me, considers the world of homelessness and drugs in late twentieth-century London through the experiences of Clint, a squatter who must find a pair of stylish shoes to get a job as a waiter. The script was subsequently published along with the screenplays for My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and introductory essays for each. Another screenplay, My Son the Fanatic (1997), was turned into a film by director Udayan Prasad. The film's story depicts the life of a Pakistani-immigrant cab driver whose son becomes attracted to Islamic fundamentalism. Kureishi's largely autobiographical first novel, The Buddha of Suburbia, focuses on Karim Amir, the son of an Indian immigrant in Britain. Karim leaves the boredom of his school days in Kent to join the acting worlds of 1970s London and New York. Karim's father, a civil servant, exaggerates his Indian mannerisms when he takes on the role of spiritual leader in his neighborhood. Similarly, Karim invents an Indian past for himself to achieve success as an actor. The novel The Black Album (1995) takes its name from an album by American pop musician Prince, who titled his album in reference to the Beatles record known as "The White Album." The story's protagonist, Shahid Hasan, a new student at a college in London, finds himself divided between the cultures represented by his black Muslim friends and his white liberal lover, a cultural-studies lecturer at the college. The novel Intimacy (1998), is narrated by Jay, a screenwriter who decides to leave his partner and children for another woman. Love in a Blue Time (1997), Kureishi's first collection of short stories, considers not only the author's usual concerns, such as the conflict between cultures, but also the effect of aging on ambition. With his second short-story collection, Midnight All Day (1999), Kureishi took up issues involving emotional relationships, as he did in Intimacy. Kureishi has also served as co-editor, with Jon Savage, of The Faber Book of Pop, an anthology of essays, reviews, and interviews that chronicles the evolution of pop music from the 1950s to present.
Critical Reception
Kureishi is well regarded for his perceptive examinations of race, class, and sexuality in postcolonial Britain. His award-winning screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette was both a critical and popular success, and established his international reputation. While Indian and Pakistani groups rebuked the film for its unflattering representation of their communities, critics lauded the movie for its unflinching portrayal of the lives of immigrants in London as well as for offering complex portraits of its characters. Kureishi's subsequent films, however, have not received the same level of recognition. Sammy and Rosie Get Laid was commended for its depiction of interracial relationships, but faulted for an overly ambitious combination of dramatic and political intentions. London Kills Me, Kureishi's directorial debut, was generally dismissed as a series of unfocused character studies and music montages. My Son the Fanatic, in contrast, received praise for its consideration of race relations and its presentation of the inner life of its cab-driver protagonist. Kureishi has received a similar mixed response to his novels and short stories. While appreciated for its multicultural perspective and satire, Kureishi's fiction has been faulted as superficially concerned with pop culture and gratuitous in its depictions of sexual debauchery and unredeeming nihilism. While some critics faulted The Buddha of Suburbia for its failure to treat its several controversial issues successfully, other reviewers commended the novel for its account of the young protagonist's experiences and its depiction of a racially mixed family. Kureishi did not fare as well, however, with the critics of his next two novels. The Black Album was found to be more like a play than a novel and deficient in its ambitious consideration of race and Muslim fundamentalism. The reaction to his overtly autobiographical novel Intimacy was even more hostile, with some critics accusing Kureishi of misogyny and even railing against him for abandoning his children during his real-life breakup. Other critics, however, regarded the novel as an elegant and complex study of love's disintegration. Although Kureishi's short-story collections have not created an impact comparable to his work in other genres, Love in a Blue Time received approval for its exploration of aging and Midnight All Day earned praise for its treatment of emotional ties. In contrast, his editorial contribution to The Faber Book of Pop met with unfavorable reaction, criticized by reviewers as being disorganized and overly long. While the critical and popular enthusiasm that surrounded the debut of My Beautiful Laundrette has yet to be duplicated by the author's other writings, Kureishi has consistently provided a unique perspective on the physical and emotional circumstances of individuals on the fringes of contemporary British society.
Principal Works
Soaking Up the Heat (drama) 1976
The King and Me (drama) 1980
The Mother Country (drama) 1980
Borderline (drama) 1981
Cinders [adapted from a play by Janusz Glowacki] (drama) 1981
Outskirts (drama) 1981
Tomorrow—Today! (drama) 1981
Birds of Passage (novel) 1983
Outskirts, The King and Me, Tomorrow—Today! (drama) 1983
Mother Courage [adapted from a play by Bertolt Brecht] (drama) 1984
My Beautiful Laundrette (screenplay) 1986
My Beautiful...
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James Idema (review date 29 April 1990)
SOURCE: "Getting by on Charm: A Young Anglo-Indian in 1970s London," in Chicago Tribune Books, April 29, 1990, p. 6.
[In the following review, Idema describes The Buddha of Suburbia as a "polemical novel … whose trenchant views on racial injustice and class antagonisms impart outrage. …"]
This crowded, picaresque first novel about the adventures of a young Anglo-Indian in the mean streets of London during the 1970s, where "the spirit of the age among the people I knew manifested itself as general drift and idleness," may put you in mind of the movies My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, because Hanif Kureishi,...
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Ross Clark (review date 12 May 1990)
SOURCE: "A Dead Teenage Genius and Others," in The Spectator, May 12, 1990, pp. 38-9.
[In the following negative review of The Buddha of Suburbia, Clark describes Kureishi as "a man with a sense of adventure that extends little further than experimentation in metropolitan sex and drugs."]
After writing one homosexual screenplay, My Beautiful Launderette, and one heterosexual screenplay, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, it was a fair guess that Hanif Kureishi was going to turn the hero of his first novel into a raving bisexual. Mr Kureishi is a man with a sense of adventure that extends little further than experimentation in metropolitan sex and...
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Richard Eder (review date 3 June 1990)
SOURCE: "E Pluribus England," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, June 3, 1990, pp. 3, 10.
[In the following review of The Buddha of Suburbia, Eder commends Kureishi's Third World perspective, although finds weakness in the later sections of the novel.]
"My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost."
It is a start worthy of Dickens; one of those bagpipe sentences whose skirl heralds the book to come, and whose bumpy drone nourishes it as it goes along. The Buddha of Suburbia is London subverted—notice that "almost"—by reality.
There is London as idea: St. Paul's, sweet Thames, the...
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Félix Jiménez (review date 9 July 1990)
SOURCE: "Gland Illusion," in The Nation, July 9, 1990, pp. 63-4.
[In the following review of The Buddha of Suburbia, Jiménez finds shortcomings in the novel's empty hedonism and unconvincing resolution.]
Karim Amir is squeezing a favorite penis (not his own) to Pink Floyd's "Ummagumma." He's 17. In order to squeeze so, he's forgone a dreaded chess club meeting and gone out with his father, Haroon, for a karmic night around town. Karim is no Janis Ian inventing lovers on the phone. As he will tell you, he's from suburbia, South London, and going somewhere—to the real London, the asterisk, the inevitable tour of duty, and then, who knows?...
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Tariq Rahman (review date Spring 1991)
SOURCE: A review of The Buddha of Suburbia, in World Literature Today, Vol. 65, No. 2, Spring, 1991, p. 370.
[In the following mixed review, Rahman finds The Buddha of Suburbia "somewhat tedious to read," but commends the author's realistic portrayal of the characters' "blighted lives."]
Hanif Kureishi is well known for such compassionate plays on race relations as Birds of Passage (1983) and My Beautiful Laundrette (1986). The Buddha of Suburbia is his first novel, and though it features Asians living in England, it does not focus upon race relations except in passing. The main theme now is the confusion of values and...
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Jonathan Romney (review date 13 December 1991)
SOURCE: "The Sound of Silence," in New Statesman & Society, December 13, 1991, pp. 30-1.
[In the following negative review, Romney asserts that London Kills Me "falls because it has precious little to say about characters who have precious little to say."]
Hanif Kureishi's London Kills Me is not a pop film as such, although you might expect it to be. The published script is accompanied by a eulogy to the Beatles, in which Kureishi is at pains to stress pop's status as "the richest cultural form in postwar Britain", and to locate writing in relation to that form: "It is pop that has spoken of ordinary experience with far more...
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Reed Way Dasenbrock (review date Autumn 1992)
SOURCE: A review of London Kills Me, in World Literature Today, Vol. 66, No. 4, Autumn, 1992, p. 724.
[Below, Dasenbrock gives a mixed assessment of London Kills Me and Kureishi's writing in general.]
London Kills Me is a collection of three screenplays and four essays by one of the most visible young "Black British" writers, Hanif Kureishi. These include the screenplays of the two well-known films Kureishi wrote for Stephen Frears, My Beautiful Laundrette and Rosie and Sammy Get Laid, as well as the screenplay of the new film Kureishi directed himself which gives the volume its title. Each screenplay is introduced by a related...
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James Saynor (review date 3 March 1995)
SOURCE: "Mirrorshades," in New Statesman & Society, March 3, 1995, pp. 40-1.
[In the following review, Saynor offers tempered praise for The Black Album, finding shortcomings in Kureishi's lack of vision.]
According to Milan Kundera, "human life is bounded by two chasms: fanaticism on one side, absolute scepticism on the other". For Hanif Kureishi, though, these giant goal-markers can be surprisingly close together. The protagonist of The Black Album, Kureishi's second novel, is partly an insolent cynic, in common with most of the author's young male heroes. But he's also partly in thrall to hardline Islam—just at the moment when...
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David Horspool (review date 11 March 1995)
SOURCE: "A Passion of a Vegetable Fashion," in The Spectator, March 11, 1995, p. 33.
[In the following review, Horspool offers an unfavorable assessment of The Black Album, citing Kureishi's "talent for caricature" as weak.]
Shahid, the young hero of Hanif Kureishi's second novel, spends most of his time trying to make his mind up. But the oddest choice he has to face is between his lecturer-lover and a sacred aubergine, which has been written on by Allah ('it's me or the enchanted eggplant', as she puts it).
Kureishi, the author of The Buddha of Suburbia and three screenplays, can apparently put anything (like the...
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Liz Thomson (review date 12 May 1995)
SOURCE: "Low Fidelity," in New Statesman & Society, May 12, 1995, p. 37.
[In the following review of The Faber Book of Pop, Thomson claims, "there is gold here, but also much that doesn't glitter at all."]
Rave novelist Irvine Welsh is reportedly unhappy at his acceptance by the literati. Hanif Kureishi would surely applaud it—indeed, would see it as inevitable. For he regards pop journalism in all its myriad forms as part of the literary continuum. In his introduction to The Faber Book of Pop. Kureishi dismisses Tom Wolfe's 1989 "literary manifesto for the new social novel", declaring pop journalism, biography, the "non-fiction...
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Michael Bywater (review date 13 May 1995)
SOURCE: "Never Mind the Width, Feel the Lack of Quality," in The Spectator, May 13, 1995, pp. 44-5.
[In the following review, Bywater offers a negative assessment of pop music and The Faber Book of Pop.]
Those who can't, no longer teach, but go into journalism, where the great thing is to natter and scratch like hens. Scratch, scratch, scratch. That's why journalists love the pop industry: plenty of surface. Scratch it away and, look!, more surface, and it changes every day. Pop is surface all the way down. The musical toolbag contains only surface instruments—rhythmic thud, punch, whine and whop—and the emotions, too, are superficial: easily dissembled,...
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The Economist (review date 15 July 1995)
The Economist (review date 15 July 1995)
SOURCE: "Talking 'bout My Generation," in The Economist, July 15, 1995, p. 67.
[In the following review, the critic discusses the portrayal of pop music in The Faber Book of Pop.]
Pop music "is the wonder of post-war British and American culture", says Hanif Kureishi in The Faber Book of Pop. It is not as bold a claim as it seems. The development of pop music (broadly defined) into a global phenomenon is a cause for wonder. It is now almost impossible to avoid, hard as some try. It has infiltrated everything from films and television to the shopping mall, the airport, the corporate PR...
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Beverly Fields (review date 22 October 1995)
SOURCE: "Literature vs. Piety on the Streets of London," in Chicago Tribune Books, October 22, 1995, p. 5.
[In the following review, Fields offers tempered praise for The Black Album, which she considers less well-written than The Buddha of Suburbia.]
Hanif Kureishi has said of his new novel, The Black Album, that it is the first expression, in fiction, of support for Salman Rushdie, whose career as a writer is literally a matter of life and death. Kureishi has set his novel in 1989, the year of the fatwa, the death sentence imposed on Rushdie by the Iranian theocracy as his punishment for having written what it considers—in the face of all contrary...
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Dennis Drabelle (review date 12 November 1995)
SOURCE: "Loves and Zealots," in Washington Post Book World, November 12, 1995, p. 8.
[In the following review, Drabelle offers a positive assessment of The Black Album, although he notes weakness in its "creaky structure."]
The title of Hanif Kureishi's speedy second novel, which takes place in London just after the fatwa has come down against Salman Rushdie (1989), refers to a work by the Artist Still Happily Known as Prince. Shahid Hasan, the Pakistani-English protagonist, is a Prince fan, dope fan, sex fan, anything but college fan, though his primary occupation is supposed to be studying.
Contrary to stereotype, Shahid...
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Bruce King (review date Spring 1996)
SOURCE: A review of The Black Album, in World Literature Today, Vol. 70, No. 2, Spring, 1996, pp. 405-6.
[In the following review, King offers a favorable assessment of The Black Album, but finds that it is weakened by Kureishi's tendency toward triteness.]
Hanif Kureishi's latest portrait of post-swinging London is set in 1989, the year of the publication of Rushdie's Satanic Verses. The liberations of the sixties, the ideologies of the seventies, massive immigration, and Thatcherite economics have resulted in acid raves, slavish followers of any anti-Western slogan, universities in which no one reads, sex without love, disappointed feminists,...
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John Bowen (review date 6 December 1996)
SOURCE: "White Men Behaving Badly," in Times Literary Supplement, December 6, 1996, p. 28.
[In the following excerpt, Bowen offers an unfavorable assessment of The Faber Book of Pop.]
The culture of rock music is a notoriously excessive affair. Anthologies are one way of capturing some of its monstrosity, and in these two fat collections, culled from a half-century or so of writing about rock and pop, we encounter, among other things, Elvis's 19,000 drug prescriptions in two and a half years, Ike Turner's thirteen wives (and innumerable affairs and one-night stands), and countless trashed hotel rooms and wrecked lives, to say nothing of such curiosities as Lou...
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Sean O'Brien (review date 28 March 1997)
SOURCE: "Eighties Vanities," in Times Literary Supplement, March 28, 1997, p. 20.
[In the following review of Love in a Blue Time, O'Brien commends Kureishi's perspective and observations, but finds shortcomings in his underdeveloped plots and characters.]
Love in a Blue Time is described by its publishers as concerned with "the difficult, serious business of love—and hate", but it might be more accurate to say that the book's main subjects are underachievement, distraction and the afterlife of youth. Love, for which sex appears a synonym, is an arena in which these conditions are indulged and suffered. Two brief stories, "We're Not...
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Donald Weber (review date Spring 1997)
SOURCE: "'No Secrets Were Safe from Me': Situating Hanif Kureishi," in Massachusetts Review, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1, Spring, 1997, pp. 119-35.
[In the following essay, Weber examines aspects of ethnicity, cultural identity, and literary practice in Kureishi's fiction and films, particularly in relation to American ethnic writers such as Jewish-American author Philip Roth.]
I want to begin this essay, which seeks to situate the contemporary Pakistani-British novelist/filmmaker Hanif Kureishi in relation to American ethnic expression, with two striking, provocative exchanges. The first is by the distinguished socialist scholar (and editor of the important journal...
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Ra Page (review date 10 May 1997)
SOURCE: "Into the Blue," in The Spectator, May 10, 1997, pp. 36-7.
[In the following review, Page offers a generally positive assessment of Love in a Blue Time, but finds shortcomings in Kureishi's tendency toward caricature.]
As any closet romantic will tell you, falling out of love can be an even grander experience than falling into it, as well as, of course, a more permanent one. The revelations of disenchantment and ways of surviving it form the basis of Hanif Kureishi's latest outing—a collection of bawdy and often indulgent short stories. The opening tale, 'In the Blue', sets the tone with the betrayals of a 22-year-old, by now perfunctory,...
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David L. Ulin (review date 28 December 1997)
SOURCE: "Hanif Kureishi Makes an Excursion into Short Fiction," in Chicago Tribune Books, December 28, 1997, p. 3.
[In the following review, Ulin offers an overall unfavorable assessment of Love in a Blue Time, despite "the success of some pieces."]
Since the mid-1980s, Hanif Kureishi has chronicled the life of modern London in a variety of media, alternating among fiction, screenplays and stage plays with apparent ease. First recognized for his film My Beautiful Laundrette, in which the dual specters of British racism and homophobia were given a very human—and, at times, unsettlingly personal—face, Kureishi writes about a society transformed...
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Kenneth C. Kaleta (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: "Kureishi's Storytelling: Liquid Windows," in Hanif Kureishi: Postcolonial Storyteller, University of Texas Press, 1998, pp. 240-57.
[In the following essay, Kaleta provides an overview of the central themes, social and cultural concerns, and artistic techniques in Kureishi's fiction and films.]
Popular response to Kureishi has not yet moved beyond initially reacting to his work with hyphenated cultural descriptors. After more than a decade, however, critical response to Kureishi appears to be moving toward an expanded perspective. He neither accepts nor acknowledges making cultural descriptors into literary criticism. Kureishi has not only survived his...
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Bruce King (review date Spring 1998)
SOURCE: A review of Love in a Blue Time, in World Literature Today, Vol. 72, No. 2, Spring, 1998, pp. 371-2.
[In the following review, King gives a favorable assessment of Love in a Blue Time.]
Written over the past decade, the six short stories of Love in a Blue Time, all republished from magazines, are a pleasant surprise. Their conciseness compresses desire, indulgence, and subsequent frustrations into a few dreamlike yet highly colloquial pages. Everything appears to happen at once, in the present, with no time for reflection. An effective technique is the sudden, unannounced, unprepared shift into the mind of someone on drugs or having sex, or into...
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Walter Kirn (review date 15 March 1999)
SOURCE: "Diet Fiction," in New York, March 15, 1999, pp. 59-60.
[In the following review, Kirn finds that Intimacy achieves only a "handsome tedium."]
Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling. Lately, it's the massive efforts that have gotten more attention, but that may be changing. Witness two new miniatures published by the same company, Scribners, and promoted for their supposed authenticity. Sized...
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Minna Proctor (review date 19 April 1999)
SOURCE: "Buddha Leaves Suburbia," in The Nation, April 19, 1999, pp. 38-40.
[Below, Proctor reviews Kureishi's career up to Intimacy.]
If you adored Catherine Texier's Breakup last year, fell to the floor gushing sympathetic tears for the abandoned raconteur and raised your fists with indignant empathy over the cruelty of love's death, then you'll probably be just as content to steer clear of Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi's fourth work of fiction. If, however, you found Texier's blitzkrieg of grief indulgent, if you wearied by page ten of the unnuanced voice of victimization, if you wondered when it stopped taking two to tango, "if you, too,...
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Peter Rainer (review date 12 July 1999)
SOURCE: "Buddy Flicks," in New York, July 12, 1999, pp. 49-50.
[In the following review, Rainer gives a brief plot summary of My Son the Fanatic.]
Parvez (Om Puri), the middle-aged Pakistani cabdriver in the marvelous My Son the Fanatic, moved to the industrial north of England 25 years ago with his wife, Minoo (Gopi Desai), and, against the evidence of his eyes, still sees his adopted country as a fabled and pleasant place. He's a naïf who has internalized the rewards of Empire far more than have the native English. When his only child, Farid (Akbar Kurtha), who still lives at home, drops his white fiancée, forsakes his possessions, and becomes an...
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Stanley Kauffmann (review date 9 August 1999)
SOURCE: "A Daughter, a Father," in The New Republic, August 9, 1999, p. 30.
[In the following review, Kauffmann examines Parvez, the central character of My Son the Fanatic.]
Belatedly, a welcome to My Son the Fanatic (Miramax). It was written by Hanif Kureishi, author of My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, and was directed by Udayan Prasad, Indian-born but raised in England, whose second feature it is. I've not seen his first, Brothers in Trouble, but Om Puri, who was in it, plays the leading role in the new picture.
Here Puri is Parvez, Pakistani-born, who has spent twenty-five years as a taxi...
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Hanif Kureishi with Colin MacCabe (interview date Autumn 1999)
SOURCE: "Hanif Kureishi on London," in Critical Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3, Autumn, 1999, pp. 37-56.
[In the following interview, Kureishi discusses racial and cultural issues in contemporary London, his background and experiences in London, and the creative processes behind his fiction and films.]
[MacCabe:] Good evening, I'm Colin MacCabe, Chairman of the London Consortium, which, together with the Architectural Association, has organised this conference on London as a post-colonial city, to which Hanif Kureishi's season of films and particularly tonight's conversation are a curtain-raiser. Kureishi's work has almost all been set in London and...
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Phil Baker (review date 12 November 1999)
SOURCE: "Umbrella Rage," in Times Literary Supplement, November 12, 1999, p. 24.
[In the following review, Baker offers a generally positive assessment of Midnight All Day.]
"What could be more beguiling than other people's stymied desire?" asks the narrator in one of these ten short stories [in Midnight All Day], bitterly sure that the tale of his romantic misfortunes is going to do the rounds among his friends. Stymied desire is the constant factor in the collection, which circles relentlessly around non-communication; toxic relationships and the bloody-mindedness of other people.
Frustration piles up excruciatingly, in "Strangers...
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Further Reading
Ball, John Clement. "The Semi-Detached Metropolis: Hanif Kureishi's London." Ariel 27, No. 4 (October 1996): 7-27.
Examines the use and multicultural significance of Kureishi's London settings in his fiction and films, particularly in My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid.
Gleick, Elizabeth. "Bittersweet Sorrows." Time (22 March 1999): 102.
Generally positive review of Intimacy, which Gleick calls "powerful, if not exactly joyous, reading."
Hogan, Kay. Review of Intimacy. Library Journal 123, No. 20 (December 1998): 157....
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