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...invent a little Bosnian sniper fire and take an uncharacteristic shot of Crown Royal, rather than use the language of the political elite she inhabits.This tension seems most interesting in the case of Sen. Obama; after all, he has criticized politicians who play the “patriotic American?? card. As he writes in his latest book, The Audacity of Hope, “those in public life have become so scripted, and the gestures that candidates use to signify their values have become so standardized (a stop at a black church, the hunting trip, the visit...
...some of the filmmakers. However, Sitney did acknowledge the arcane nature of many experimental films. “These came out of a deeply personal and idiosyncratic language,” he said. Sitney ties it in part to the American psyche. “There is a longstanding American??should I say Emersonian—tradition of eccentric self-reliance.” —Staff writer Rebecca A. Schuetz can be reached at schuetz@fas.harvard.edu...
...Such developments cast doubts on the strength of democracy in these countries and the degree of stability that Western—especially American??support really lends them. Rather, Ms. Palin’s comments indicate that, like the current Bush administration, a McCain-Palin administration would continue to treat “democracy” as a hollow slogan used to justify extension of American power...
...Given the major impact that the obesity epidemic has had on American society as a whole, it’s not surprising that some efforts have been made to combat the plague of excess pounds. Public education campaigns, including a very noticeable series of Internet ads depicting the average American??s stomach as an inflatable beach ball, have been a cornerstone of efforts by various government agencies and the Ad Council to increase awareness of the problem...
...works from the Anglo-American tradition would fall within its purview, in fact authors from backgrounds ranging from South African to Polish are routinely taught in its courses. What unites these authors is English—not the nationality, which is implied by its placement alongside “American?? in the current department name, but the language. This may appear insignificant, but there are larger principles at stake here. Without precision, language loses its meaning. In his famous essay, Politics and the English Language, George Orwell commented that a lack of carefully chosen diction and imagery marked...