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...runs out of America. It is the culmination and extinction of hope. The vision of plenty for everyone becomes a mockery--a process whose impact is amply documented by the 1930s social-realist segments of this show, with their dock strikers and Mexican migrant workers pitted against grasping Anglo bosses. Different cultures and immigrant races swirl around, not in a melting pot as some optimists have supposed but in unappeased opposition to one another...
...became chairman of the powerful House Banking Committee, speaking out on the S.-and-L. scandals and Iraqi arms sales--and calling for President Bush's impeachment. Though a hero to South Texas Hispanics, Gonzalez refused to be classified "ethnic." Said he: "There are no Hispanic issues, no Anglo issues--only people issues...
...BEOWULF: The Anglo-Saxon epic, the bane of English majors, looks brand-new and thrilling in a verse translation by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. The tale may still strike readers as bloodthirsty, but Heaney's language evokes Beowulf's tragic stature, his helplessness to avoid - and his bravery while facing - the dictates of his fate...
...Four wars, combined: the 1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War (reportedly 45 minutes), the 1969 Soccer War between El Salvador and Honduras (four days), the Six-Day War and the U.S. invasion of Grenada (nine days...
...taught continental philosophy for the government department, whose primary emphasis is on Anglo-American analytical philosophy...