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...excuse for college kids to look good and show off their tuxes and dates to their friends. He concludes happily that since everyone realizes that it's all just a big show, there's really no need to be nervous! He's determined to take future formals with that grain of salt, knowing that, by definition, they're only formal. Why be anxious...
...aspects we have chosen as our themes are the impulse to create meanings for the (at first) unfamiliar panoply of American nature; the "American grain" of direct, pragmatic vision and craftsmanship; the urge to visionary expression of spiritual experience; the wish to implant grandeur in society; the move into cities and the obsession with their heroic technology; the desire to commemorate events and remember exemplary people; and the fondness for breaking (and defending) cultural molds...
...reward for success. Those of the late 18th century were more apt to distrust it as a vice. They associated it with frivolity, decadence--colonial rule. Virtue showed itself in plainness, explicitness, pragmatism, "making do," an unfussed directness of craftsmanship. There was, as the phrase went, an "American grain...
Roughly 4.5 million acres in North Dakota and Minnesota were under chocolate-colored lakes, and potato, sugar-beet and grain farmers feared losing the planting season. As the water receded in Grand Forks and people began returning home to inspect damage estimated to top $1 billion, the Red whooshed toward Canada, bringing armies of small-town locals scurrying onto levees to hold back the river with sandbags and plywood. Mostly, they lost. There was some discussion of whether any of this could have been minimized. Some blamed the National Weather Service for underestimating the river after the melting...
...would pick up 100% of the immediate emergency disaster costs, not the customary 75%, other Grand Forks residents may not be able to rebuild their homes and businesses for years, and thousands could be out of work indefinitely. On the northern edge of town, Harris Peterson, 71, says his grain-processing plant depends on farmers' shipping him product, so it could be a rough year. "But it's the people downtown who are ruined." He adds, parenthetically, that his $250,000 downtown house was destroyed. No flood insurance. His eyes fill as he stands erect and says...