End of ADS-L Digest - 1 Apr 1997 to 2 Apr 1997
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<br>Subject: ADS-L Digest - 2 Apr 1997 to 3 Apr 1997
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<br>There are 14 messages totalling 392 lines in this issue.
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<br>Topics of the day:
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<br> 1. Melting Pot (2)
<br> 2. "Color Line" (part one--1874/75 NY Herald)
<br> 3. for to
<br> 4. Old News?
<br> 5. "for to"
<br> 6. Comput-TV
<br> 7.  No subject given 
<br> 8. For-To again
<br> 9. linguist Ebonics archive (2)
<br> 10. For to...
<br> 11. for-to (2)
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<br>Date:  Thu, 3 Apr 1997 02:19:30 -0500
<br>From:  "Barry A. Popik"  Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM 
<br>Subject: Melting Pot
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<br>   There was a huge lineup outside of where I worked at Chambers Street in
<br>Manhattan the other week. The marriage bureau was next door; I joked to
<br>colleagues that I got on the wrong lunch line and got married by mistake. "I
<br>just ordered rice, and look what happened!"
<br>   Which brings us to "melting pot."
<br>   The Miner/Rawson American Heritage Dictionary of American Quotations
<br>has, on pg. 21, quote 3, the familiar passage from Israel Zangwill's THE
<br>MELTING POT:
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<br>   America is God's crucible, the great melting pot, where all the races of
<br>Europe are melting and re-forming...Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and
<br>Englishmen, Jews and Russians--into the crucible with you all! God is making
<br>the American!
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<br>   Zangwill did not invent this. See the cartoon in Puck, Vol. XXV, no.
<br>693, 3 July 1889 (I forgot the page). The caption is:
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<br>THE MORTAR OF ASSIMILATION--AND THE ONE ELEMENT THAT WON'T MIX.
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<br>   The mortar bears the word "CITIZENSHIP." An anarchist leaps out with a
<br>bloody knife. Miss America/Miss Liberty is stirring the mortar with a spoon
<br>that reads "EQUAL RIGHTS."
<br>   The Mortar of Assimilation pre-dates The Melting Pot by about twenty
<br>years.
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<br>"For To" in "Oh, Susanna!"
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<br>I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee
<br>And I'm goin' to Louisiana, my true love for to see
<br>Oh, Susanna!
<br>Now don't you cry for me....
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<br>  O. K. I'll cry for Madonna.
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