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Barnum, as his biographer A. H. Saxon says,"encouraged people to be skeptical. That's how hegot people in." Saxon continued laughingly,"Mermaids were believed to be hybrids. All Barnumdid was present the oddities, and said, 'Here, youlook at it, you decide...

Author: By Kathrine A. Meyers, | Title: HARVARD'S LITTLE MERMAID: A MODERN-DAY ODYSSEY | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

...State, drew strength from radio shows where callers talked about sightings of black helicopters and U.N. plans to set up a secret compound in the state. In neighboring Idaho, Helen Chenoweth upended an environmentalist Democratic incumbent in part by saying that the only endangered species was the "white Anglo-Saxon male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTCASTS DIGGING IN FOR THE APOCALYPSE | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

...spread of monotheism has culminated in what Francis Fukuyama deems the 'End of History'--the unrivaled dominance of Western-Capitalistic-Monotheistic-Dead-White-Male- Anglo-Saxon-Democratic Society (Historical Studies A-12). Monotheism is incompatible with life in multicultural society, which requires freedom of choice not only in lifestyle, but also in after-lifestyle. What we need to cure the ills of society, therefore, is a viable challenge to the hegemony of traditional thought. In a world where people can choose from fifteen flavors of Snapple, one godjust isn't cutting it anymore...

Author: By Jim C. Murray, | Title: groovy train | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...vastly more diverse, with people of countless racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds, a good proportion of them from non-Western countries. I therefore must confess that I do not understand the usefulness of requiring all students to have a thorough grounding in Western Civilization. Although a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (a definition which I see the need for only on official documents). I appreciate the opportunity to take courses like Literature and Arts C-16, "Rebirth and Karma in Indian Literature and Ritual." This is a course which Mr. Chrisman singles out, apparently for its specific focus. In my opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Reflects On Core Classes | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...SENATOR LARRY CRAIG (R-IDAHO), CRITICIZING EAST COAST ENVIRONMENTALISTS WHO SUPPORT ENFORCING ENDANGERED-SPECIES LAWS IN THE WEST. UNDER FIRE, CRAIG LATER CLARIFIED HIS STATEMENT -- WHAT HE HAD REALLY MEANT TO SAY WAS, "THE ONLY PERSON THERE ISN'T A LAW PROTECTING TODAY IS THE WHITE ANGLO-SAXON HUMAN BEING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CC: Earl Butz | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

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