Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago today, I wrote a piece called "Israel's Worst Best Friends," in which I argued that Israel's morally unsavory actions against Palestinians in the occupied territories create an intellectual crisis for a certain group of American Jews...
...defined this group, the "Zealots," as those Jews who support Israel merely because it is a Jewish state, and for whom Israel's status as a democracy is ancillary. Because the majority of American supporters of Israel--myself included--do not share this unqualified support for Israel, the Zealots are forced into intellectual dishonesty when Israel commits acts unbefitting a democracy...
...because I'm fat, of course. No, I am one of the millions of American women who are dieting because we have a poor self-image. We are not happy with our bodies. We want to look like the super-thin models and emaciated actresses we see in the media. I personally want to look like Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face. My dieting buddy wants to look like Bob Hope in The Road to Bali...
...then there was Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom ("friendly attitude"--the CUE Guide). At the same forum, he placed a five dollar bill on the table, betting Assistant Professor of Sociology and of Afro-American Studies Roderick J. Harrison that Black professors at other Ivy League universities are "unqualified" as academics...
...Keillor thinks up a lot of good material as he mumbles. Thus the new show: recycled mugger-repellent. What kind of new show? Some comedy, centered more in the present than the nostalgic P.H.C. was, he said a few days before the first broadcast. But mostly "fine, classic American music; music to make people throw babies in the air." Tunes for the old show, which he closed with a teary farewell broadcast in June 1987 (tearier second and third farewells followed, and a fourth is plotted for next June), tended to be guitar-based bluegrass and country, not counting...