Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Crimson: You've researched two American Presidents--TR and RR. What do you think makes a great president...
...Edmund Morris: A great president should embody with out any equivocation the hopes and desires of the American people at the time of his election. I think in the case of Theodore Roosevelt, the new young president (he was the youngest we've ever had, by the way) embodied the intoxicating feeling at the turn of the century that America had at last become a world power. Reagan, at the moment of his accession, embodied a general national desire to put aside all the self-doubt and gloom of the 1970s and recover the optimism and patriotism of the 1950s...
...Reagan was the all-American. Well actually there's not as much of me in it as you'd think. The narrator is rather unlike me, he's mathematical and Germanic, I am neither of those things. Also well-born and elitist, which I am not. The musical part is me--I couldn't help that because I think in terms of music. I only incorporate things like the TR book because it's directly related to how I became Reagan's biographer, and when I do talk about myself it is for structural reasons. And you are absolutely right...
...spent on representations of homosexuality? How about Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase?" He might just fear hellfire and brimstone as punishment for underwriting any display of carnality. Heck, what about a fanatical tree-hugger--should his tax dollars help house murals depicting the brutal subjugation of the American West...
...Girls episodes and Tori Spelling TV movie, stuffing in as many shameless Kim Alexis Monistat ads, and sunny "I have a secret" girls in a series of Tampax commercials. The mere presence of the chick-flick and its never-ending range - from "Single White Female" to "Notting Hill" salutes American women with both cheerful and turbulent visions of womandom. From girl powerful Fiona Apple to woman powerful Oprah Winfrey to Polident powerful Eartha Kitt, pop culture absolutely swims in images of femininity for the American woman...