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...French Connection, a good film about cops, the heavy side of Dealing, Saxon 219 Tremont St. Daily...
...French Connection, a good film about cops, the heavy side of Dealing, Saxon 219 Tremont St. Daily...
...French Connection, a good film about cops, the heavy side of Dealing, Saxon 219 Tremont St. Daily...
Once upon a time, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants-Puritans and the children of Puritans-clamped a code on America as tight as the pillory. Ramrod stiff with duty, tense with work ethic, the code operated splendidly on the frontier, and more or less adequately until after World War II. But then WASP "defaulted on their birthright of cussedness and irreverence" and turned into what Schrag calls the "plastic WASP." Still claiming to be the model-the only model-for a Good American, the plastic WASP has ended up a crabby tyrant of pallid respectability...
...that the most talented playwright in American history was a black Irishman named Eugene O'Neill, or that the wisest philosopher was a half-Spaniard, George Santayana. One would never suspect that America's only native art, jazz, was the invention of Americans who were neither Anglo-Saxon nor white...