Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Americans gorge their food with "voracious rapidity"; they swill, guzzle, spit and pick their teeth with pocket knives. In Cincinnati, she related, cows are nonchalantly milked at the house door (a predecessor, no doubt, of the great American custom of home delivery), and pigs enjoy such citizenship that they wander at will, rooting in the street garbage and nuzzling pedestrians with their moist snouts. Americans seldom declined to provide a bounteous native rubery for the satirist to exercise his superciliousness upon: according to Henry Adams, Ulysses S. Grant once told a young woman in all seriousness that Venice would...
During a panel discussion entitled "Women in War" Chayes said, "Women will have the privilege of serving their country, sharing in the hardships involved, and carrying the obligations of full citizenship...
Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 57, has a palace in North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, a residence in Peking and now honorary citizenship in the Maryland town of New Carrollton (pop. 14,000). It was conferred during Sihanouk's visit to greet Cambodian refugees living there and pray with them in a service presided over by saffron-robed monks who later feted their former ruler with cakes and tea. The Prince, who is in the U.S. to generate support for a neutral Cambodia, is also visiting refugee groups to see how they fare in a faraway...
...both ways, of course. It would have shown Jesse Owens, the black American, taking three gold medals from the Master Race. TV might have had some earnest little between-meets features discussing Hitler's anti-Semitic programs (the promulgation of the Nuremberg Laws, for example, which denied citizenship and livelihood to Germany's Jews). Might have; but sports television's mentality runs to the upbeat, the visually appealing and, obviously, the accessible...
...support among the Third World, not to mention contribute more to their welfare, than pumping yet more arms around the globe. Maybe even that will not be credible as long as we continue to support the South Africans and keep blacks and Hispanics in a state of second-class citizenship at home. If the oil-rich shieks and the Chinese are so afraid of Russia, let them arm and train the Afghan rebels. Let them get friendly with the Baluchis before the Soviets...