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...working towards here: “We never did a popular thing / Don’t even know how to sing / Couldn’t sell out a telephone booth / What I’m telling ya is the truth.” These words define—albeit in grossly generalized form—what it means to be a punk...
...language and the culture around them. They realized that unlike many of their homelands, one could express political or cultural opposition here and still be regarded as a good American. And finally, they gave birth to a generation, now in its 20s and 30s, whose primary identification is American, albeit with a "Muslim" prefix. "The feeling is," paraphrases Haddad (who is not Muslim), "'We are American. We participate in this America. We cannot live off America and not be part of it, and we have something to contribute...
...wonders who is more pitiable—the performer who is a travesty, or those who are willing to spend their dollars and hours allowing that travesty to exist, and indeed making it a profitable enterprise? In short, who’s exploiting whom? After all, there exists the (albeit remote) possibility that Willis’s entire act is, well, an act. It is possible that Willis goes home after his shows and, while counting the pocketful of money he made that night, laughs to himself at the gullibility of his audience. It would be a delicious irony...
...Yankees were right to pay tribute, albeit a touch melodramatically, to the loss of life during a pre-game event. They were right to celebrate the endurance of the American spirit...
Ridge did participate in internal campus politics—albeit at a low-key level. He served as a member of the Freshmen Council, the Undergraduate Council and the Quincy House Committee...