Word: legacyism
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As we drive through the lush countryside, we are stunned that this island cannot feed itself. But the perversions of Soviet-style agriculture have left their legacy. To trade for Russian oil, Castro converted much of Cuba's arable land to sugar. A government bureaucrat sighs as he tells the...
The word Wasp -- white Anglo-Saxon Protestant -- conjures a thumbnail history such as this, compounded of memories of textbooks and shreds of slander. As thumbnail histories go, it is not inaccurate, except that it leaves out the Wasp's greatest legacy: the American character. Whether we like it or not...
The pageant of American history has always looked rather different to the descendants of slaves than it does to descendants of slave owners. Not surprisingly, it also appears less than festive to the descendants of conquered natives, exploited migrant workers or Chinese railroad coolies. To them the vital history lesson...
And in words is the preservation of Walden. Without Thoreau's legacy, the pond, which is more than a hundred feet deep in parts, would have docks, motorboats, and inflatables. Walden Woods would be a woods only in name; no benefits would be staged to save it from developers.
Korder, one of the most promising American playwrights, reaches back in style more than a half-century to the era before the dominance of kitchen-sink realism, when the American theater was expressionistic and experimental, poetically and politically inflamed. Despite a few sentimental false notes, he is painfully apt about...