Welcome to this month's reading group selection. David Von Drehle mentions The Melting Pot , a play by Israel Zangwill, that premiered on Broadway in 1908. At that time theater was accessible to a broad section of the public, not the exclusive domain it has become over the decades. Zangwill carried a hopeful message that America was a place where old hatreds and prejudices were pointless, and that in this new country immigrants would find a more open society. I suppose the reference was more an ironic one for Von Drehle, as he notes the racial and ethnic hatreds were on display everywhere, and at best Zangwill's play helped persons forget for a moment how deep these divides ran. Nevertheless, "the melting pot" made its way into the American lexicon, even if New York could best be describing as a boiling cauldron in the early twentieth century. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America takes a broad view of events that led up the notorious fire, not...
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ReplyDelete"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie ..."
ReplyDeleteAs batty as that photo is, it doesn't really sum up Michelle, as Jon Stewart pointed out on one segment. Michelle may be many things, but "moonstruck" she is not. This gal knows what she wants and more or less how to get it, unlike Sister Sarah who she has now eclipsed. You don't hear much talk of Palin anymore.
Yeah, one way of getting what you want is to pay in advance for all the $30 "votes" on behalf of all of your would-be supporters. I give her (or her advisors) credit for that one, although she paid for a lot more votes than she received which is also interesting.
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