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...From this jumble of rehashed prejudices, Americans might learn why much of the rest of the world—not just neo-medievalist Muslims—fear and cluck disapproval at the country’s headstrong populace. The modern Western world believes that the United States is a cultureless, violent, under-educated juggernaut whose two primary activities (both carried out at McDonald’s) are eating hamburgers and shooting people. This rash generalization is one that Laxer’s book bears out and that Americans would do well to understand, whether to mend their habits...
From this jumble of rehashed prejudices, Americans might learn why much of the rest of the world—not just neo-medievalist Muslims—fear and cluck disapproval at the country’s headstrong populace. The modern Western world believes that the United States is a cultureless, violent, under-educated juggernaut whose two primary activities (both carried out at McDonald’s) are eating hamburgers and shooting people. This rash generalization is one that Laxer’s book bears out and that Americans would do well to understand, whether to mend their habits...
...medievalist who taught playwriting,so he was in two worlds simultaneously," Brusteinsaid. "There was no one else in the world whocould do both...
...Barnaby Keeney, a medievalist and the president of Brown University, wanted a humanities foundation, and in those days the humanities had a much bigger following around the country than the arts. I wanted the endowment to be for the visual arts, and Jack Javits wanted it for the performing arts. So we compromised, and that's how we got the two endowments and later the Institute of Museum and Library Services...
...Kishlansky, a 17th century British historian from the University of Chicago; David Blackbourne, a 19th century social and political German scholar from the University of London, Birkbeck College; Peter J. Gallison '77, a professor of 20th century physics history from Stanford University; and Michael McCormick, who is an early medievalist from Johns Hopkins University...