1993 Toni Morrison
1991 Nadine Gordimer ???
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer ???
1976 Saul Bellow
1962 John Steinbeck
1954 Ernest Hemingway
1949 William Faulkner
1948 T.S. Eliot アメリカ生まれ
1946 Hermann Hesse アメリカに帰化?
1938 Pearl Buck
1936 Eugene O'Neill ???
1930 Sinclair Lewis
25 「貧しいことは美しい」 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:5 (KJV)
26 (With changes) Sorry, that was the first of the 8 Beatitudes (Matt. 5:3).
Matt. 5:5 is "Blessed are the geek: for they shall inherit the earth." OR
"Blessed are the geek: just look at Bill Gates."
Orientalism
I read a column in today's NY Daily News by Zev Chafets which reminded me of an old Diane Ravitch article in American Scholar magazine. She described Orientalism -- if I can recall correctly today an article I read 10 years ago -- just as Chafets did and pretty much the same as Hitchens did: as making the claim that Westerners are inherently incapable of understanding anything non-Western, particularly Islam, and that attempts to do so are necessarily "imperialistic".
Chafets writes:
'Like all great polemics, "Orientalism" rests on a simple thesis: Westerners are inherently unable to fairly judge, or ever grasp, the Arab world. In fact, any attempt to do so amounts to an art of intellectual imperialism. ...Indeed, studying the subject is tantamount to colonialist aggression'
In other words, hands off, or we'll nail your politically incorrect hide to the wall. --Uncle Ed 19:44, 1 Oct 2003 (UTC)