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...Cuban-Americans were born in the U.S., and are proving remarkably adept at absorbing American culture. Teen-agers in La Saguesera may delight in the café con leche and mediasnoches (Cuban sandwiches) of the garish, mirrored Versailles coffeehouse, but they are equally at home in more anglo surroundings; fútbol (soccer) is popular, but so are béisbol and fútbol americano. "Being a Cuban-American is having two sets of values," explains Raimundo Sacre, 16, who was brought to the U.S. at the age of three. "At school we live the American life; at home...
...striking side element of Alexander Nevsky is the hostile depiction of Catholicism, which Eisenstein accomplishes by integrating Catholic ceremony with German preparations for battle. It would seem that this is a fair reflection of Stalin's strong anti-Catholic Church line, which terminated in 1941 with the Anglo-American-Soviet alliance...
...recently published study of Anglo-American relations--"for the most part, literary" --over the past century, Stephen Spender sees the fundamental relationship as an ambivalent one. From one side, the forces of a common language and literary tradition draw the American instinctively across the Atlantic. Yet he is pulled in the opposite direction by differences that began to develop even before the Revolution and were later sharpened by America's growth and by massive immigration. "Here," claims Spender, "were the horns of the dilemma: the combination of political independence and cultural colonization." Henry James, living in Europe and trying...
...highly qualified as Spender to tackle the mammoth undertaking of his subject matter. Although an Englishman to the core, Spender's contact with the American literary scene has been extensive. As a visiting professor and lecturer on numerous American campuses, and as British editor for fourteen years on the Anglo-American literary magazine Encounter, Spender has been more than a mere witness to American literary activity for almost half a century. Along with W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis and Louis MacNeice, he was part of the 'thirties foursome that brought radical changes to a somewhat stagnating English literary style...
Though that number seems high-only a prototype of the Anglo-French Concorde and two Soviet TU-144s are now flying-most aviation experts predict that at least 500 SSTs will be in service by the end of the century. If they all fly, the researchers warn, the nitrogen oxides generated would have a thinning effect on the ozone shield. Without this critical protection, people would run a much higher risk of going blind and of contracting skin cancer...