Word: saxon
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...that are bigger than us." For some, the stories have also come to symbolize French anxiety over globalization; the character of Asterix is used as a poster boy for independent-minded people everywhere in the struggle against the hegemonic power of the day, be it Roman imperialists or Anglo-Saxon capitalists. (See pictures of kids' books coming to life...
...with so-called metal detectorists, who make a hobby - and often an obsession - out of unearthing treasure from the country's rich past. Occasionally they strike gold, like Terry Herbert, a 55-year-old Staffordshire man who, it was announced Sept. 24, discovered more than 11 lb. of Anglo-Saxon gold on a farm north of Birmingham. But mudlarks, who consider themselves lite archaeologists, tend to view treasure seekers with disdain. While anyone can obtain a permit to search the five or so miles of the river's southern foreshore between Westminster and Wapping, the 51 licensed mudlarks...
...Angeles are as much or more about a polyglot patchwork of such self-contained ethnic communities as they are about anything that could be called a dominant culture. Indeed, even whatever could loosely be called a “dominant culture” derived from white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, is like the croutons in a soup whose broth and flavor come from African-Americans, Jews, and other historically oppressed minorities. The immigrant can imagine him or herself adding spice to this soup. The melting pot beckons. The very ease with which one can defer assimilation in the United States seems...
Reaper, Grim • continuing insatiability of for celebrity blood claims Karl Malden, • and Harve Presnell, • and Fred Travelena, • and Billy Mays, • and Gale Storm, • and Sky Saxon, whose band The Seeds, had the great song "Pushin' Too Hard...
...chanting nationalist slogans as young men. I knew what he meant. I grew up in Sutherland Shire, in Sydney's south, where my family - South Indians from Malaysia - had settled after immigrating in 1988. And although the Shire, as it's called, is one of the most Anglo-Saxon regions of the country, it was like the rest of Australia in its laid-back attitude to national sentiment. Sure, it was good to be Australian, but the rest of that stuff - the flag-waving, the chest-thumping - was the province of those jingoistic Yanks. When I was a teenager...