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...Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude, Keats's On First Looking into Chapman's Homer and John Stuart Mill's autobiographical A Crisis in My Mental History, I should like to focus on a particularly important work in the canon of reading period. This is a famous Anglo-Saxon riddle...
...Anglo-Saxon riddles (usually in the form of "what am I?") come down to us without any answers, although most have now been reasonably deduced. An example of the early Anglo-Saxon attitude toward reading can be found in this riddle...
...they'll point an accusing finger at the jump in the suicide rate during the Christmas season. But perhaps the most pervasive, if not the most pernicious, effect of Christmas is the identity crisis it can cause among kids who are not white or Anglo-Saxon or Protestant. Little black kids find themselves on the knee of a big fat white man with a bushy white beard. And little Jewish kids mut live with the suspicion, even while they are trimming a tree or opening a Christmas present, that somewhere in this story of brotherly love there's a villain...
...melting-pot theory come from the "new ethnicity," a movement that began in the early '70s and is continuing to spread among the descendants of Southern and Eastern European immigrant groups, including Italian, Polish, Portuguese-and just about every other variety of American but old-line Anglo-Saxon Protestants and the well-publicized blacks, American Indians and Hispanics. "White ethnics have been ignored in favor of blacks and Hispanics," claims Mary Sansone, executive director of New York's Congress of Italian-American Organizations. Now, taking a cue from the blacks, the white ethnics argue that what is good...
...Uruguay and Argentina on either side of the river. Another sunset, seen from sea level, the eye drawn up walls of ocher, rust and dusty rose to the snow fields on the crest of the Chilean Andes. Everywhere, people of charm, energy, talent, incorrigibly attracted to non-Anglo-Saxon forms of government...