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...keeping with the age-old idea of America as the New World (we are hoary with youth), Stewart was, in the roles that most gripped the public, a kind of child-man, a Harry Langdon with sex appeal. Even the sexiness brought out a mothering instinct in women. He was their poet, who had to be protected from insensitive brutes...
...witty manifesto, Herz correlates each major genre of electronic game with an age-old impulse: shoot-'em-ups like Doom tap the primal instinct for survival, while puzzle games like Tetris satisfy the need for order, control and reason. The games' larger-than-life superheroes are interpreted as contemporary reincarnations of mythological figures like Zeus and Prometheus...
...that bridge. I remember the wonder that I arrived with when I first came here the wonder of feeling a part of a long and lofty tradition. Much of my excitement about coming to Harvard was unique because coming to Harvard was unique because of its rich past and age-old myths. The great irony, though, was that although Harvard's allure came from its history, a history that was supposed to become mine, as well, I didn't feel myself related...
...about" the negotiations, she claims. "And when I finally got a copy of the agreement, I practically went into shock." Had any of the parties approached her, she says, she would have informed them, "Well, I'm not interested in selling my property." In part, the stance is just age-old miner's shrewdness: Don't sell your stake unless it's running out. But her rebuff also reflects a century of skirmishing between Western miners and the feds: "We Montanans feel pretty strongly about our love of the land," she says. "It is not American to be trying...
...overtaken as the largest minority group by Hispanics. Asians and Pacific Islanders will more than double their number of 9.3 million in 1995 to 19.6 million by 2020. An explosion of interracial, interethnic and interreligious marriages will swell the ranks of children whose mere existence makes a mockery of age-old racial categories and attitudes. Since 1970, the number of multiracial children has quadrupled to more than 2 million, according to the Bureau of the Census. The color line once drawn between blacks and whites--or more precisely between whites and nonwhites--is breaking into a polygon of dueling ethnicities...