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Early in this century, the humorist Stephen Leacock said the American innocent must prove his folksy virtue by being semi-inarticulate, mouthing things like "Heck, b'gosh, b'gum, yuck, yuck." That is why Jimmy Stewart's hesitating-gulpy delivery was reassuring. His appeal went so deep because it touched America's belief in its own simplicity. When Mark Twain wanted to present himself as a traveling American, he called his tourist book The Innocents Abroad...
...There are more students taking science courses as semi-captives, and not seeing science as a vocation," he says...
Mack was in the newsletter business with his second wife, but he says both the business and the marriage have failed since he wrote the article in Harvard Magazine. Mack is now in semi-retirement in the Hamptons on the east end of Long Island, and still writes occasionally for The New York Times...
...Semi-retired and holding the upper hand in a battle against lung cancer, he has returned to the northern Arizona mountains where he was born and raised...
...Australian, Hughes enjoys a special vantage point on America's visual culture. "You need to be an alien to do this sort of semi-anthropology," he says. "You need to be both inside and outside the subject." Knowledgeable as he was when he started, Hughes still found that his years of working on American Visions taught him a few things about our art--and our country. One lesson, learned while shooting the TV series: "The rarest thing in the Great American Outdoors is a moment of silence. Every time we turned on a camera in some national park or other...