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...World of Our Fathers, he confronts another symptom of success in America: the assimilation blues. For many Americans whose non-English-speaking parents and grandparents were part of the huddled mass that funneled through Ellis Island at the turn of the century, the immigrant experience is conveniently forgotten or bizarrely recreated...
...London during the plague of 1592-93, when most respectable physicians had fled to the country. Rowse takes Forman's side. Judging from surviving records, the untutored amateur seems to have wreaked less carnage than the certified practitioners who bled or purged victims at the drop of a symptom...
...ruination of the American family, so widely proclaimed during the '60s and frequently welcomed as a symptom of the liberating deluge, was obviously far from total. But American
...that pity and terror purged the emotions and left the heart light. Freud thought stories of "the uncanny" released repressed anxiety-real toads come out to play in imaginary gardens. A modern German theologian, Rudolf Otto, was convinced that the goose flesh people feel at horror movies was the symptom of primitive religious experience. But a close look at the history of the fear trip-as Pop-Sociologist Les Daniels demonstrates in this witty catalogue of Who's Who in Horror-suggests more immediate historical reasons...
Novak wants a coalition of minority whites and blacks based on equal ethnicity for all. Others disagree. Harvard Sociologist Orlando Patterson, himself black, thinks ethnicity was "possibly the only way blacks could mobilize" but sees white ethnicity, its successor, as an alarming "symptom of fragmentation" in society, and he believes it is tacitly or potentially antiblack. Some white minority groups would actually rather be all-American than be seen as a separate ethnic group. Carlos Almeida, whose Portuguese Union of the State of California pushed through the Bay Area bilingual program, says that all Americans should learn English...