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It recently received powerful empirical support from Robert Putnam, whose 1993 book, Making Democracy Work , documented that northern Italy is civil-society rich and southern Italy, civil-society poor.
In "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital," a now-legendary article written in 1995, Harvard's Robert Putnam pointed out that league bowling in America has been declining for decades, while individual bowling is on the rise.
The Nation 's Katha Pollitt takes Putnam's very example, the shift from league bowling to ad hoc bowling, and suggests that "[that] story could be told as one of happy progress from a drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance with the same old faces from work to temperate and spontaneous fun with one's intimate friends and family."
VandeHei gives the game away when he complains that Davis is also trying to recruit such obvious low-lifes as "Adam Putnam, a 25-year-old state representative" in Florida.
McNelly, W. E., The Dune Encyclopedia, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1984.