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184 the minnesota review direct her one-act play, Coffee, last summer. She is currently writing a novel. CAROLYNE WRIGHT's work has appeared in the Missouri Review , the Iowa Review, and the Georgia Review. Only forty-seven states to go. Editor's Note In our previous issue (Spring 1986), the final paragraph of Danielle MarxScouras 's essay, "Culture and Politics: The Politecnico Experience," mistakenly included several sentences suggested by the editors but which were not finally approved by the author. The final paragraph ought to have read as follows: Dissidence is, nevertheless, a limited and elitist phenomenon which has only touched a narrow stratum of intellectuals associated with scientific and cultural production.3' Encouraging and stressing the value of differences and exceptions, on the one hand it calls in question what is socially and linguistically repressive, but on the other it perpetuates those differences which are supports for social inequaUties and repression. Despite its critique of a "culture of consolation," and despite its attempt to realize a militant cultural practice for the masses, // Politecnico 's finally dissident positions and its insistence on the autonomy of culture indicate a cultural-political stance in which the intellectual merely defends his own domain, seeking to protect its specificity and social value at a time when he feels threatened by political forces and ideologies. We regret the error and apologize to Professor Marx-Scouras for attributing to her words she did not authorize. ...

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