Ruth Etting — Ruth

The wandering singer has returned home after many conquests in the West....May she cast over us the same spell that she has cast over the Americans.

I don't read poetry for pleasure. I read to be terrified in a way. And people who terrify me from their size and the grandeur of their imagination now are people like Pasternak and Neruda, a lot of Latin-American poets, Lowell - very few English poets - Ted Hughes a little...very few English poets now in fact (1968)

What I'm asking is whether this is still a country where a peculiar person such as Michael Jackson can get a fair shake and be considered innocent until proven guilty … or is this just a 21st-century American barnyard where we all feel free to turn on the moonwalking rooster … and peck it to death?

[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/chaplin_c.html American Masters: Charlie Chaplin] at PBS

I am a Bad American is another mass-forwarded internet message often attributed to George Carlin, but was not written by him.

American Horror Story

The American Medical Association and the Red Cross both condemn force-feeding as a form of torture. And yet, the U.S. government and the United Nations have both force-fed hunger-striking prisoners. The real problem? Most people probably don’t realize how complicated force-feeding is, and how much can go wrong.

Donald Trump poses a clear threat to American democracy, to Canadian sovereignty, and to the international rule of law.

DePauw University News [http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=17824 "Closing of the American Mind Author Allan Bloom Calls on DePauw Students to Seize "Charmed Years"]. Ubben Lecture Series : 11 September 1987, Greencastle, Indiana. (Accessed 16 May 2007).

[http://nativeamericanwriters.com/zitkala-sa.html Early Native American Literature page]

I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.

Faced with the urgency of the Latin American situation, the Church denounces as insufficient those partial and limited measures which amount only to palliatives and in the long run actually consolidate an exploitative system.

The Americans insisted and we are not in a place where we can refuse them. We rely on them for planes and military equipment. What are we supposed to do? Tell them no?

American Dragon: Jake Long (Removed)

The European view point of exploitation of women in Europe compared to the African American women shows an inaccurate judgment.