Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Government 1540, "The American Presidency...
...What seems really weird to me is that on American Airlines, you can open up their magazine, and there it is: your horoscope. It's very funny, they have a very flamboyant sort of a wild guy writing these things, and it's entertaining. But on the other hand, what's keeping the airplane up? It seems so wacky to me, that an enterprise that depends on an understanding of the physical world, and requires people to have confidence in their ability to do so, at the same time have this sort of mysticism...
...Author of New York Times best seller The Overspent American, Schor is known to most undergraduates as the spirited professor of "Shop 'Til You Drop: Gender and Class in Consumer Society" a.k.a., Women's Studies 132. In that class, Schor argues that shopping has been trivialized in this country mainly because of a gender breakdown in which people associate consumption with females and production with males. Contending that the acts of purchasing and shopping are actually a very important component of American society, Schor then critiques the adverse affects of consumerism. For 10 years Schor has analyzed the relationship between...
...Afro-American Studies (Prof...
...137y, "The African American Literary Tradition...