Word: amerika
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Although Featherstone had not been known as an extremist, friends said that he had grown markedly more bitter in the past year. Police cited a crudely spelled typewritten statement found on his body: "To Amerika:* I'm playing heads-up murder. When the deal goes down I'm gon be standing on your chest screaming like Tarzan. Dynamite is my response to your justice." Brown, meanwhile, was nowhere to be found...
Reviewing Jefferson Airplane's new album Volunteers (Columbia deleted the words of Amerika ), for example, Phil Primack discussed the Airplane's relation to the traditional politics of rock, attacking those who ooh'ed and aah'ed over Woodstock as "the start of the revolution...
...consciousness." There are only a few ways, however, in which Russians can satisfy their hunger for information about American lifestyles firsthand: examining the few consumer products available in hard-currency shops, attending occasional educational fairs sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency, and thumbing through the cultural exchange magazine Amerika, which is popular despite a limited circulation of 55,000. The vast majority of reports about the U.S. appear in the Soviet Union's state-run press, and whether they involve Pentagon plans or kitchen conveniences, they almost invariably carry at least a tacitly unfavorable comment on capitalism...
...raire with an air of astonishment. The show consisted of 111 naive American paintings from the collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, and by the time it closed, 35,000 Frenchmen had flocked to the Grand Palais to see it. In Berlin, 15,000 poured through the Amerika Haus during a six-week showing, and in London the Sunday Times commented admiringly: "We seem here to be offered the image of a vanished people and a faraway mode of life reflected in an eye as clear and sharp and unobsequious as a bird...
...Amerika, du hast es besser [America, you have it better]," said Goethe 145 years ago, and the world today looks to the U.S. as the pinnacle of material prosperity. In seeking the creature comforts of the modern age, other nations consider it incidental that most of the goods can be obtained most cheaply and efficiently in ways and styles designed by the Yanks. Says Britain's leading Americanologist, Sir Denis Brogan: "What is called Americanization in the rest of the world is largely modern industrialization. America is the chief modern industrialized society, in all the things that means...