During the fifties, for example, the American character appeared with some consistency that became a model of manhood adopted by m...any men: the Fifties male. He got to work early, labored responsibly, supported his wife and children and admired discipline. Reagan is a sort of mummified version of this dogged type. This sort of man didn't see women's souls well, but he appreciated their bodies; and his view of culture and America's part in it was boyish and optimistic. Many of his qualities were strong and positive, but underneath the charm and bluff there was, and there remains, much isolation, deprivation, and passivity. Unless he has an enemy, he isn't sure that he is alive. The Fifties man was supposed to like football, be aggressive, stick up for the United States, never cry, and always provide.... During the sixties, another sort of man appeared. The waste and violence of the Vietnam war made men question whether they knew what an adult male really was. If manhood meant Vietnam, did they want any part of it? Meanwhile, the feminist movement encouraged men to actually look at women, forcing them to become conscious of concerns and sufferings that the Fifties male labored to avoid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unchecked, the tourist will climb over the fence and come right into your house to take pictures of you in your habitat. Cities mi...ndful of tourists have built elaborate "tourist traps" which, luckily, work. Tourists are kept confined to these, and few escape. There is, of course, the type known as the "intrepid tourist." This one has to be watched carefully or he can become most annoying. Little wonder these are so often the target of terrorists. If there is an aspect of benign terror about the tourist, there is also a great deal of tourist in the terrorist. Terrorists travel with only one thing in mind, just like the tourist, and the specifics of places escape them both. Terrorists travel for the purpose of shooting unsuspecting foreigners, just as tourists travel for the purpose of shooting them with a camera.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is time that we start thinking about foundational issues: about our attitudes toward fair trials... Who are the People in a mul...ticultural society?... The victims of discrimination are now organized. Blacks, Jews, gays, women--they will no longer tolerate second-class status. They seek vindication for past grievances in the trials that take place today, the new political trial.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Awareness of the stars and their light pervades the Koran, which reflects the brightness of the heavenly bodies in many verses. Th...e blossoming of mathematics and astronomy was a natural consequence of this awareness. Understanding the cosmos and the movements of the stars means understanding the marvels created by Allah. There would be no persecuted Galileo in Islam, because Islam, unlike Christianity, did not force people to believe in a "fixed" heaven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are refe...rred to in the newspapers as blacks and African Americans must include Europe and Native America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 wa...s the Year of the White Middle Class Woman--but since the leadership of this faction of the feminist movement has singled out black men as the meta-enemy of women, these women represent one of the most serious threats to black male well-being since the Klan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With importa...nt connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done... in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »