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… American life was in such a state that my poor little points would have been sent off merely to a great blank. If … gilding, so much simple hope, money, and preeminence in a commercial world, it was our America. It looked as if our … of American culture, delivered in Italian to Italian audiences of a very representative variety and importance. …

… themselves to go from that “different stage” of an almost medieval society to a modern state with a developed economy … found difficult to express. In Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926) he idealized homsexuality as the biblical love of David … voice, the rising and dropping tone which emphasized the points, or what he thought were points, of his pointless …

… just shy about her English. It turned out we had a lot in common. I saw her a second time a month later in New York … wasn’t a conscious decision; it was simply the more I’d studied at large universities, the more I’d traveled and lived … yet—however naïve this could seem now—I had somehow always also taken for granted that, when the time came to have …

… of worldwide immigration, Sowell, at the same time, has also focused on some of the most important contemporary … from attaining economic parity with the rest of society. He points to the prejudice faced by Japanese immigrants in many … the United States who, nevertheless, were able to overcome this barrier and eventually find acceptance in many …

… by relying on mental processes of discernment, analysis, comparison, and evaluation that are congenial to him and his … occasion to explain the modern hybrid system to a Western audience, he felt compelled to insist that the Meiji … abolition at the latter’s discretion. As Richard H. Minear points out, Hozumi’s writings have a thrust distinctly …