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We glide past the Craters of the Moon in a dazed sprawl of too little sleep and empty night and headlights that beam vaguely, duskily across the spread of road and desert that lap across each other here, where the march of flourescent poles has not yet reached. Catching our...
(7 of 18) regardless of race. Crime rates in tawdry sections of Chicago have remained high over the decades, though inhabited at different times by Swedes, Poles, Germans, Italians, Syrians and blacks. Says Sociologist Lloyd Ohlin: "Slums of the big cities have always been the main source of recruitment to...
Our American brand of nationalism was produced while people here were thinking of something else. The early British settlers already had their Old World nation, and long continued to feel themselves part of it. But they and all later comers to America -Irish, Germans, Poles, Italians, Czechs, Jews, Negroes and...
The extraordinary Czech literary and cinemagraphic "new wave" of the 1960s was a product of, as well as a contributing factor in, the struggle to change a regime that had been introduced in Czechoslovakia in 1948, and which obstinately refused to undergo any transformations after Stalin's death. The Czechs...
Naive Glee. Eyewitness accounts contained scenes of savage contrast. Many of the Khmer Rouge soldiers who first entered Phnom-Penh were country boys who joyfully climbed aboard abandoned automobiles and rammed them, more by accident than design, against walls or telegraph poles; with naive glee, they looted stores for wristwatches...