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...means that the culture is flourishing? Or is it more of a sad phenomenon because it represents selling out—sacrificing authenticity to become part of the American capitalistic market? JL: Well the first question is: What is authenticity? Authenticity is a function of time and place, so what??s really interesting is that American Chinese food has become its own thing. If you go to South Korea, there’s actually a chain of South Korean American Chinese restaurants. They even have the take-out boxes. So it has evolved into...
...bright, eye-catching costumes, the harlequin was a favorite subject of 18th-century porcelain sculptors. Though less than a handful of actual harlequin costumes survive today, those on display seem empty compared to the porcelain figurines that recall the actors’ expressiona and posea. “What??s important about these sculptures is they show you a three-dimensional view of these costumes and the figure,” Chilton says.“A Taste of Power” demonstrates that porcelain figurines are not just the “little tchotchkes on your grandparent?...
...seemed like something really pertinent to kids that were my age,” Ethel says. “It seemed like a good idea for me to get involved and to tell [Theodore and Will] what is interesting to actual college kids and what??s helpful...
...Striving to improve his craft, the struggling writer traveled to a local community college to enroll in creative writing classes. Upon arrival, however, he discovered that the writing classes were full. “It was a long bus ride so I asked them ‘Well, what??s open?’ and they said ‘Gosh, psychology is.’ And I thought, ‘Psychology has something to do with people, and I’m writing characters, so this will help me become a better writer...
...What??s particularly tragic about this situation is that this myth of the “heartland” ethic is by and large a phantasm constructed by conservative elites in order to frighten liberals away from drifting towards populism. In reality, rural America has been the site of some of the nation’s most radical political movements. Eugene Debs, the prominent socialist of the turn of the century, was a proud resident of Terre Haute, Ind. Lyndon Johnson, the architect of the century’s most far-reaching liberal programs, was born a poor...