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...Cloud, Minn...
ETHNICITY IS IN. In contrast to the Old World behavior of their parents, first-generation Americans tried to shed their ethnic identity and join the melting pot. Now, with Americanism under something of a cloud, people are rediscovering their ethnic roots and returning to native dress and behavior. Buttons proclaim: KISS ME, I'M POLISH, HUNGARIAN POWER and ESKIMO POWER. Richard Nixon has boasted of his trace of Irish ancestry, and George Wallace allows as how he has Jewish in-laws. Practically nobody tries to pass for a WASP any more...
...Stanley Cloud's Essay "A Ghostly Conversation on the Meaning of Watergate" [Aug. 6]: I must say that Mr. Cloud's insight into the philosophies of our two most influential founding fathers was truly enlightening, as was his obvious understanding of the contemporary attitudes of the American people. It is too bad that most citizens fail to realize that they are not "children to be instructed and led," but mature, sovereign individuals upon whose trusted and respected responsibility this country was built and stands...
...Cloud's dialectic misses an essential irony. It wasn't so much that Hamilton wanted to cut off Jefferson's "people" from participation as that Hamilton had a pessimistic estimate of the people's ability to distinguish between good and evil within the context of a rapidly developing industrial society. Hamilton's disciplined aristocracy should at least have ruled with a sense of tradition, proportion and decorum...
...kind of prairie pastoral Cather did best. Through the eyes of a boy named Neil Herbert, it tells of the Forresters, a couple whose fortunes are tied to the railroads. Their house outside Sweetwater-one of the many fictional names Cather gave to her own town of Red Cloud-is known "from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere." Neil is enchanted by young Marian Forrester. She wears the only earrings he has ever seen, allows herself a little wit and more than a little sherry...