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...goes with them. The U.S. is represented not by Virgilian celebrators of the Great Society but by outsiders dog-paddling against the mainstream of American life. If American society is a success, no one would know it from this anthology. Unless it is Louis Auchincloss (unrepresented here), the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant has no laureate and, unless it is John O'Hara (also unrepresented), no candid friend. The voice of America...
...eyes of many a modern university protester, this was the golden age of education. The essential debate between Lernfreiheit, student freedom, and the Anglo-Saxon tradition that the college stood in loco parentis, was first articulated in Germany in the late 18th century, and later drew some 9,000 American students eager to endorse the new freedom. The issue is still being fought on American campuses...
...understandable. Some 34 million Americans, or 19%, are listed by the most recent census as of "foreign stock," which the Census Bureau defines as either foreign-born or with at least one foreign-born parent. Others have defined "ethnic" as any individual who differs from "the basic white Protestant Anglo-Saxon settlers by religion, language and culture." Since, of the total population, 65% come from non-Anglo-Saxon stock, this amounts to a lot of voters, most of them in the big cities. In New York, as the Rheingold-beer ads say, there are more Italians than in Naples, more...
...changes have not come overnight. A striking example was the election of John Lindsay as mayor of New York in 1965. White Anglo-Saxon Protestants such as Lindsay make up probably no more than 5% of the city's population. His opponent, Abraham Beame, was a Jew, and as has often been said, New York is the biggest Jewish city in the world. But Lindsay won. Says Michigan's George Romney: "The bloc vote has disintegrated. In 1962, I got only 11% of the Negro vote. In 1965, it was up to 19%. This year...
...subtlest melting process on the U.S. scene, the ethnic minorities (which together actually constitute the majority) greatly and constantly influence the Anglo-Saxon minority in culture, fashion, food and even philosophy. At the same time, the ethnic minorities continue to admire the Anglo-Saxon model. "The American's image of himself," says Professor Will Herberg of Drew University, "is still the Mayflower, John Smith, Davy Crockett, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln . . . and this is true whether the American in question is a descendant of the Pilgrims or the grandson of an immigrant from southeastern Europe." In politics, write Harvard...