In his final year in office, President Dwight Eisenhower threw out the first pitch of the 1960 baseball season. Bill Mazeroski handled the last pitch. The Pirates' second baseman sent it more than 400 feet, over the left-centerfield wall at Forbes Field to break a 9-9 tie in Game 7 and win the World Series 50 years ago today. The conquest of the mighty New York Yankees rocked the sports world. The underdog Pirates won their first world championship since 1925 while a Yankees dynasty of more than 30 years suffered a shocking (yet brief) setback. But at the same time, in politics and in our culture; in Pittsburgh, in the nation, in the world and in baseball, life as we knew it was quickly changing on a scale that superseded even a momentous sporting event.
You say "tomato," I say "tomahto," but in reality, what difference does it make? The important point is that those wonderful, locally grown red globes are beginning to show up at the market. Because of the cool, wet weather we had this spring, some of the growers didn't get their plants in as early as they would have liked, and others lost most if not all of their crop because of flooding, but barring an extreme heat wave in the near future, we should be enjoying an abundance of them for a month or so. Who do we have to thank for this juicy fruit? (Yes, botanically it is a fruit, as are eggplants, squash and several other species. "Vegetable" is merely a culinary term, so one would be correct to refer to a tomato as either). Apparently, the natives of Central and South America ...
From the days of religion's infancy when primitive shamans stepped forward to answer questions like "What is going on when we dream?" or "Why do bad things happen?" right up to the modern era of globalization and the waning idea of a personal savior, Robert Wright asserts in his new book, The Evolution of God, that religion acts as something of a mirror to social Darwinism, reflecting not only our personal bonds with the all-powerful, but also the relationships of our communities to one another through such mediums as trade and conquest. According to Wright, the progress of the world was poised to embrace a new social order and Christianity filled that role.
Next Tuesday will mark a very special day for our friends of Mexican heritage because Dec. 12 is the festival of Our Lady of Guadalupe. This day is celebrated in honor of the Mexican Catholic belief that the Virgin Mary appeared to an Indian man named Juan Diego four times in 1531, shortly after the Spanish conquest of Mexico and less than 40 years after Columbus's discovery of the New World. The image of Guadalupe is well known in Mexican art, although in the United States one sees it on automobiles on the highway more often than it is seen even in Catholic churches, but it holds a special place of devotion to Mexicans of all citizenships.
The racial, cultural, and political issues involved in defining American Studies in the twenty-first century are directly addressed in the third section, "Critiquing the Conquest of California." Gretchen Murphy's "A Europeanized New World" regards [Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton]'s novel as an effort to decenter Anglo-American politics and culture. Murphy claims that Who Would Have Thought It? deconstructs the traditionally American "New World" identity by exploring the politics of the day, namely James Monroe's 1823 presidential message. John M. González's "The Whiteness of the Blush" nicely complements Murphy's piece as he explores Ruiz de Burton's complicated use of race in The Squatter. According to [Jovita Gonzalez], The Squatter conceptualizes national identity in the "inevitability ...
On page 240 of Pat Buchanan's stunningly logical new book, "State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America" appear the following words: "One of the truly major issue with which America must deal [is] the vast tidal wave of human beings coming from the Third World. There is a fragmentation going on in this country. At what point does cultural, racial diversity become a kind of social anarchy? How do you get national cohesion this way? But those are not the words of my friend and political sparring partner Pat Buchanan. They are words he quoted from a 1987 interview in the Christian Science Monitor with Eric Sevaried, the CBS correspondent and close associate of Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow.
The worry over low fertility rates is more about fear than impending social disaster. The white majority doesn't want to be a giant melting pot of ambiguous ethnicity and norms. They're more worried about a loss of identity and culture. Pat Buchanan is a good example of acculturation fear. His new book title, "State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America," is so self-descriptive, a quote from it would be redundant. But, in all fairness, it isn't as if he's totally paranoid -- at least in this instance.
In his passionate call for America to remain America by staunching uncontrolled immigration, Pat Buchanan may be seen as an unlikely offspring of Thomas Paine and Henny-Penny. In 1776, Paine wrote: "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind." And Henny-Penny warned everyone within earshot that "the sky was falling. In his new book, "State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of American," Mr. Buchanan is less crusading than Paine and less apocalyptic than Henny-Penny. But he is determined to keep America and its unique culture from being corrupted or subverted by uncontrolled immigration, especially from Mexico.
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