Word: pluribus
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...with people who seemed different: obliterate the differences. Today increasing numbers of nominal Americans refuse to see America as anything more than a collection of ZIP codes. Their ideal is Yugoslavia, without machine guns. Multiculturalism, in the words of historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., "belittles unum and glorifies pluribus...
Rudenstine has emphasized since his appointmentlast spring as Harvard's 26th president that hewants the various parts of the University to drawon each other's strengths. "Less pluribus, moreunum," the slogan goes...
...might conclude that precisely because we no longer know what makes "e pluribus" into "unum," we keep trying to inject a shared moral direction into our politics by applying outdated standards to public figures...
...settlers -- "a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans and Swedes . . . this promiscuous breed." He propounded a famous question: "What then is the American, this new man?" And he gave a famous answer: "Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men." E pluribus unum...
...American goals of assimilation and integration. And, in an excess of zeal, well-intentioned people seek to transform our system of education from a means of creating "one people" into a means of promoting, celebrating and perpetuating separate ethnic origins and identities. The balance is shifting from unum to pluribus...