It's the original meme, one of the most popular and prevalent clichés of the late 20th century: "Think of the poor starving children".
The idealisation of silence remained strong in American culture into the 20th century: think of the laconic heroes of Western films, or of Hemingway's novels.More recently it has been neither trade nor taciturnity, but the distractions of technology, which have seemed to threaten the quality of conversation.
Take the R or V trains to 36th Street; think of Long Island City as being two stops past Bloomingdale's.
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The weekly pass is a slightly better deal, but it won't replace a $30 weekly MetroCard: there are too many trips you can't make in 30 minutes, and the bikes don't yet extend north of 59th Street (think Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum, Harlem).
But unsavory as such details are, they don't seem out of place in a detective novel set in a European capital in the mid-19th century — think of Svidrigailov's dream about a lewd 5-year-old in "Crime and Punishment".
The longer it stays that way, the better.Benign neglectIn this section The sun also rises Bury Lenin The bomber will always get through Now make Turkey's case America rules OK Decapitating the snakeheads Reprints Related items Internet geopolitics: Gulliver's travailsOct 6th 2005 The consensus machineJun 8th 2000Most people think of the internet as decentralised and thus uncontrollable.
The Rondy, or Fur Rendezvous, is an annual event in Anchorage that combines a World Championship sled dog race and (sort of) related activities including outhouse races, snowshoe softball and the traditional running of the reindeer down 4th Street; think the running of the bulls with furrier animals and snow.
While many Americans raised in the 20th century still think of benches as the conventional form of seating, people who grew up in the bucket-seat era may find them oddly archaic.
What will Americans of the 22nd century think when they look back and see that in 2011 alone, the following were just a few of the acronym-titled bills introduced in Congress.
