Word: americanizing
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Perhaps this tendency of the American Self evidences itself nowhere more clearly than in environmentalist literature and eco-criticism. It wasn't narcissism but selflessness--in the most authentic sense of the term, the vanishing of the self--that led Thoreau to tell us about his life in the woods: it was his conviction that individual choices possess some kind of cosmic exemplary significance. Walden is a sort of spiritual biography of man in Nature, told through Thoreau's experience in the woods. The notion is that experience is transcendent of the personal, and indexes the general...
Purdy is certainly heir to this tradition of highlighting the exemplary individual, and what is remarkable is the extent to which he seems to understand and to successfully employ the techniques and the tropes of American environmentalist literature. What these techniques come down to, at bottom, has always been the recognition that logic will not suffice in altering the common perception of human responsibility.The environmentalist's have believed that, ultimately, it is not logical consideration that brings people to hopeless irony, and that redemption too will be effected not through logic but through passion and commitment.The use of the exemplary...
...nearest Virgin Megastore. The reviews certainly aren't going to attract them--critics have been brutal. He'll learn a lesson the hard way--no one likes a gloat. Once we know he's out to set records, we'll try our best to stop him. It's the American way. Build someone up. Break them down once they start anticipating the finish line...
Self-described American disco-folk, The Humming is also jazz-influenced, with a twist of reggae. This versatile and harmonious band has taken American rock-and-roll where it should be, away from whiny bands to musicianship and joy. Each band member is a real artist in his own right, and together Ian Steams, Reggie Martell, Ty Gibbons '00 and Frisbay create a unique sound. It is hard to succinctly describe a song set that included jazz breakdowns, a slide didgeridoo, the drummer on vocals and a jig. Some lounge, some first wave ska and some B.B. King slipped through...
...this summer by the Kansas state board of education dropping evolution from the science curriculum, the ongoing battles about prayer in the schools--particularly in places like Alabama--and the struggles in many places including Massachusetts is a pretty clear sign that this is a big-time issue in American society at the beginning of the new century...