Word: assimilationism
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In Stage Fright, the group's best record yet, their sound remains an intricate and often complex assimilation of styles, with heavy emphasis on country and good old rock and roll. If anything, the sound is now simpler, more accessible. But deceptively so. It complements a lyric complexity that...
The Revolutionary, on the other hand, is a very quiet, honest, unsensational film that refuses to stop being heard after the last frame-unexhausted by a dramatic catharsis and unwilling to go straight to its shelf in the Universe of Ideas. Paul Williams has directed a work that both resists...
Absent, too, would be the need for that tragic knowledge which we try ceaselessly to evade: that the true subject of democracy is not simply material well-being but the extension of the democratic process in the direction of perfecting itself. And that the most obvious test and clue to...
For all their material achievement in the U.S., for all the concern of tradition-minded elders about excessive assimilation and loss of identity, most American Jews have a fierce emotional attachment to Israel. The reasons are not difficult to find. Two thousand years of Diaspora and persecution have left a...
When Moynihan returned to New York, he simultaneously began to contribute articles to Manhattan journals and to get involved in politics. "In the Jewish culture," says Harvard Sociologist Nathan Glazer, "you get out of poverty by going to college and becoming a lawyer or an intellectual. In the Irish culture...