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Posted inLiterature

Western Lit: Lucy Moore Finds ‘Common Ground’ in Public Disputes

Many of us have attended public meetings at which emotions run uncomfortably high. Each side is firmly, sometimes even fiercely, entrenched; voices are raised; tempers are frayed. People hurl verbal grenades at each other, refusing to concede an inch. Actual communication is rare, and the gathering often degenerates into chaos. That’s where people like Lucy […]

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