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«New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite-the taxi driver.»
Author: Alan Brien
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
driver, journalistic, surliest, surly, taxi, taxis, Taxi Driver, The Western, waiters, Western
«One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.»
Author: Jonathan Raban
| Keywords:
admirable, Christianized, families, features, fiber, fibers, fulfil, Happy Family, heroic, Marriages, myth, normal family, oddest, stable, The Myth, Western
«Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.»
Author: Karen Allen
(Actress)
| Keywords:
an American, brazil, hemisphere, hemispheres, The Western, Western, western hemisphere
«Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
Babylon, flames, flow, hierarchies, hierarchy of, idols, imperial, mystic, mystics, pagan, pagans, popular, popular culture, temple, Temple of, theater, The Imperial, The Western, Western, westerns
«President Bush said it's now time for a change in Iraq and he wants them to have a Western-style democracy like ours. So right now in Iraq, the economy is collapsing, businessmen are corrupt, and Hussein wants his son to take over as president. Sounds like mission accomplished.»
«Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.»
«MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
English, indocile, mustang, nobleman, noblemen, plains, The American, The Western, Western, westerns
«Much have I traveled in the realms of gold,/ And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; / Round many western islands have I been / Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.»
«Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.»
«Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
decades, History of the, replacing, sounded, The Social, The Western, Western
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