The American Reporter Copyright 1999 Joe Shea. All Rights Reserved. We're living through a season of lists. Names, book titles, cities, songs, and top-10s are being dropped around us like autumn leaves. I suspect the last days of the 20th Century, when millenium fevers of all sorts abound, are less responsible for this than is assumed.
Lists are wonderful stimulants for thought and opinion.
Byatt confesses to enjoying such lists, and I am with her. I t should come as no surprise that Time magazine is trying to arrange our collective American minds and providing us a chance to vote along with its editors in selecting the century's most influential people. June will provide the most influential Heroes and Inspirations. He wants to know if the Time crew ever considered Hans Kung or Karl Barth. Well, who knows, perhaps one of them will show up in June as inspirations.