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Letter "A" » America and Americans
«The pseudonymous perpetrator of America's only unsolved airline hijacking [is] a folk hero as shadowy as Deep Throat and as morally troublesome as Jesse James.»
Author: David Gates
(Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
airline, airlines, folk, folk hero, hijack, hijacked, hijacking, James, Jesse, Jesse James, morally, perpetrator, perpetrators, pseudonymous, shadowy, throat, troublesome, unsolved
«The pejorative term 'political correctness' was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe»
Author: Judith S. Marin
| About:
America and Americans,
Politics
| Keywords:
adapted, American Express, disapproval, enlargement, enlargements, etiquette, pejorative, political correctness, subscribe, subscribed, subscribe to, subscribing
«The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.»
Author: Lance Morrow
(Essayist, Journalist)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
afternoon, American culture, bats, flap, flapped, flapping, flaps, Kennedy, malign, maligned, November, The Wild, trap, trap door
«The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea»
Author: Max Lerner
(Columnist, Politician)
| About:
America and Americans,
Freedom
| Keywords:
brand, competition, Maintaining, silencing
«The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.»
Author: Oscar Levant
(Actor, Composer, Pianist)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
corrupt, Democrats, Republicans
«The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony»
Author: Paul Goodman
| About:
America and Americans,
Society
| Keywords:
American System, electorate, interlocking, mass media, misled, monopolies, notoriously, phony, semi, The Organization, unenlightened, venal
«The players in this drama of frustration and indignity are not commas or semicolons in a legislative thesis; they are people, human beings, citizens of the United States of America.»
Author: Roy Wilkins
(Statesman)
| About:
Actors and acting,
America and Americans
| Keywords:
comma, commas, frustration, indignities, indignity, legislative, semicolon, semicolons, thesis, The United States of America, United States of America
«The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.»
«The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Adversity,
America and Americans,
Competence
| Keywords:
at home, foes, incompetence, superstition, threaten
«The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government,
Liberty,
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
American people, entrust, entrusted, entrusts, experiment, justly, model, preservation, Republican, staked
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