End of ADS-L Digest - 1 Apr 1997 to 2 Apr 1997
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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 2 Apr 1997 to 3 Apr 1997

There are 14 messages totalling 392 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. Melting Pot (2)
 2. "Color Line" (part one--1874/75 NY Herald)
 3. for to
 4. Old News?
 5. "for to"
 6. Comput-TV
 7. <No subject given>
 8. For-To again
 9. linguist Ebonics archive (2)
 10. For to...
 11. for-to (2)

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Date:  Thu, 3 Apr 1997 02:19:30 -0500
From:  "Barry A. Popik" <Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
Subject: Melting Pot

   There was a huge lineup outside of where I worked at Chambers Street in
Manhattan the other week. The marriage bureau was next door; I joked to
colleagues that I got on the wrong lunch line and got married by mistake. "I
just ordered rice, and look what happened!"
   Which brings us to "melting pot."
   The Miner/Rawson American Heritage Dictionary of American Quotations
has, on pg. 21, quote 3, the familiar passage from Israel Zangwill's THE
MELTING POT:

   America is God's crucible, the great melting pot, where all the races of
Europe are melting and re-forming...Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and
Englishmen, Jews and Russians--into the crucible with you all! God is making
the American!

   Zangwill did not invent this. See the cartoon in Puck, Vol. XXV, no.
693, 3 July 1889 (I forgot the page). The caption is:

THE MORTAR OF ASSIMILATION--AND THE ONE ELEMENT THAT WON'T MIX.

   The mortar bears the word "CITIZENSHIP." An anarchist leaps out with a
bloody knife. Miss America/Miss Liberty is stirring the mortar with a spoon
that reads "EQUAL RIGHTS."
   The Mortar of Assimilation pre-dates The Melting Pot by about twenty
years.

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"For To" in "Oh, Susanna!"

I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee
And I'm goin' to Louisiana, my true love for to see
Oh, Susanna!
Now don't you cry for me....

  O. K. I'll cry for Madonna.