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- Feb. 28, 1994: Died:Christopher Lasch
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Feb. 28, 1994 Ministry of Rage:Louis Farrakhan
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 19
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- <p> DIED. CHRISTOPHER LASCH, 61, social critic and historian; of
- cancer; in Pittsford, New York. A lucid, penetrating writer,
- Lasch dissected postwar American society in his best-known work,
- The Culture of Narcissism (1979). He contended that his fellow
- citizens had become self-absorbed and materialistic, losing
- faith in the power of community to make life better. His prescription
- for combatting America's crisis of spirit, outlined in such
- works as The Minimal Self and The True and Only Heaven, involved
- a progressive philosophy that placed great importance on family
- and self-discipline. Said Lasch: "Today's culture has ceased
- to stand for the values that many people continue to believe
- in."
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