Made In America (71 page)

22
Lutz,
Doublespeak,
p. 82.

23
Ibid., pp. 16–17.

24
Hendon,
Classic Failures in Product Marketing,
p. 169.

25
Ibid., p. 168.

15: The Movies

1
Flexner,
Listening to America,
pp. 374–5.

2
Cook,
A History of Narrative Film,
p. 7.

3
Jowett,
Film,
p. 27.

4
Cook, op. cit., pp. 10–11.

5
Flexner, op. cit., p. 378.

6
Cook, op. cit., p. 12.

7
Ibid., p. 24.

8
Rybczynski,
Waiting for the Weekend,
p. 137.

9
Mencken,
The American Language,
4th edn., p. 738.

10
Flexner, op. cit., pp. 382–3.

11
P. Smith,
A People’s History of the United States,
vol. 7, p. 880.

12
American Heritage,
December 1983, p. 24; and
New Republic,
29 July 1991, p. 7.

13
Berg,
Goldwyn,
pp. 140, 214–19, 238, 248–55, 380.

14
New York Times,
28 March 1993, p. H15.

15
The Economist,
2 October 1993, p. 108.

16
Berg, op. cit., p. 262.

17
Jowett, op. cit., p. 357.

18
Ibid.

16: The Pursuit of Pleasure: Sport and Play

1
Krout,
Annals of American Sport,
p. 11.

2
Fischer,
Albion’s Seed,
pp. 146–7.

3
Ibid., p. 6.

4
Ibid., p. 8.

5
Ibid., p. 16.

6
Flexner,
Listening to America,
pp. 504–6.

7
American Heritage,
December 1967, p. 107.

8
Boorstin,
The Americans: The Democratic Experience,
p. 158.

9
Morison,
The Oxford History of the American People,
p. 88.

10
American Heritage Dictionary,
2nd edn., p. xxiii.

11
Fischer, op. cit., p. 737.

12
Dillard,
American Talk,
p. 65.

13
Adams,
Western Words,
p. 109.

14
Dillard, op. cit., pp. 65–71.

15
Holt,
Phrase and Word Origins,
p. 200.

16
Dillard, op. cit., p. 74.

17
Boorstin, op. cit., p. 73.

18
American Heritage,
June 1972, p. 67.

19
Rae,
The Road and the Car in American Life,
p. 29.

20
Atwan, McQuade and Wright,
Edsels, Luckies and Frigidaires,
pp. 151–2.

21
Liebs,
Main Street to Miracle Mile,
pp. 138–142.

22
Allen,
Only Yesterday,
p. 68; and
American Heritage,
June 1972, p.68.

23
American Heritage,
February/March 1983, pp. 24–7.

24
Dulles,
America Learns to Play,
p. 185.

25
Flexner, op. cit., p. 33.

26
Fischer, op. cit., p. 151.

27
American Heritage,
June/July 1983, pp. 65–7.

28
Will,
Men at Work,
p. 102.

29
Voigt,
American Baseball,
p. 30.

30
Ibid, p. 135.

31
American Heritage,
June/July 1983, p. 74.

32
Mencken,
The American Language,
suppl. 2., p. 737.

33
Krout, op. cit., p. 142.

34
Mencken, op. cit., p. 735; and Flexner, op. cit., p. 39.

35
Time,
23 September 1940.

36
P. Smith,
A People’s History of the United States,
vol. 6, p. 848.

37
Safire,
On Language,
p. 289.

38
Flexner, op. cit., pp. 48–9.

39
Ibid., pp. 261–80.

40
Jackson,
Crabgrass Frontier,
p. 99.

41
Holt, op. cit, p. 154.

42
Washington Post,
21 January 1991, p. D5.

43
New York Times,
16 February 1992, p. 1.

17: Of Bombs and Bunkum: Politics and War

1
Holt,
Phrase and Word Origins,
pp. 42 and 129.

2
Mencken,
The American Language,
suppl. 1, pp. 280–3.

3
Mencken,
The American Language,
4th edn., p. 179.

4
Brogan,
The Penguin History of the United States of America,
p. 274.

5
Carver,
A History of English in Its Own Words,
p. 165.

6
McPherson,
Battle Cry of Freedom,
pp.111–15.

7
American Heritage,
December 1975, p. 13.

8
Boorstin,
Hidden History,
p. 263.

9
Mee,
The Genius of the People,
p. 285.

10
P. Smith,
A People’s History of the United States,
vol. 3, p. 145.

11
Ibid., vol. 4, p. 126.

12
Brogan, op. cit., p. 312.

13
Flexner,
I Hear America Talking,
p. 161.

14
Allen,
Only Yesterday,
p. 104.

15
Johnson,
Modern Times,
p. 214.

16
American Heritage,
December 1991.

17
Mencken,
The American Language,
suppl. 2, p. 590.

18 P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 3, pp. 608–9.

19
Flexner, op. cit., p. 405.

20
McPherson, op. cit., pp. 323–5.

21
Flexner, op. cit., p. 450.

22
American Heritage,
February 1964, pp. 23–96.

23
Ciardi, A
Browser’s Dictionary,
p. 227.

24
Barfield,
History in English Words,
p. 76.

25
Holt, op. cit., p. 16.

26
Carver, op. cit., p. 252.

27
Flexner,
Listening to America,
p. 330.

28
Mencken,
The American Language,
4th edn., p. 759.

29
Ibid., p. 508.

30
Lingeman,
Don’t You Know There’s a War On?,
pp. 219–21.

31
The Economist,
27 February 1993, p. 108.

32
New York Times,
2 February 1992, p. 17.

33
American Speech,
Spring 1992, pp. 86–9.

18: Sex and Other Distractions

1
Life,
8 October 1951, pp. 61–2.

2
American Heritage,
December 1983, p. 86.

3
Fischer,
Albion’s Seed,
p. 92.

4
Flexner,
Listening to America,
p. 449.

5
Fischer, op. cit., p. 87.

6 P. Smith,
A People’s History of the United States,
vol. 1, p. 69.

7
Hibbert,
Redcoats and Rebels,
p. 7.

8
Fischer, op. cit., p. 681.

9
Flexner, op. cit., p. 492.

10
Ciardi,
Good Words to You,
p. 42.

11
Cmiel,
Democratic Eloquence,
p. 117.

12
Garrett,
At Home,
p. 136.

13
P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 6, p. 264.

14
Tannahill,
Sex in History,
p. 336.

15
Ibid., p. 336.

16
American Heritage,
October 1974, p. 74.

17
Observer,
14 November 1993, Books section, p. 20.

18
American Heritage,
October 1974, p. 73.

19
Ibid., p. 94.

20
Zinn,
A People’s History of the United States,
pp. 109–16.

21
Ibid., pp. 116–17.

22
American Heritage,
October 1974, p. 43.

23
Cmiel, op. cit., p. 81.

24
Ibid., p. 162.

25
P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 6, p. 264.

26
Ibid., p. 271.

27
Ibid., p. 273.

28
Flexner, op. cit., pp. 452–5.

29
American Heritage,
October 1973, p. 86.

30
The Economist,
14 March 1992, p. 51.

31
Barnett,
Sexual Freedom and the Constitution,
p. 33.

32
Allen,
Only Yesterday,
p. 77.

33
Flexner, op. cit., p. 62.

34
Schumach,
The Face on the Cutting Room Floor,
p. 18.

35
Allen, op. cit., p. 84.

36
American Heritage,
February/March 1980, p. 17.

37
Mencken,
The American Language,
4th edn., pp. 360–1.

38
Berg,
Goldwyn,
pp. 266–7.

39
Schumach, op. cit., p. 216.

40
Ibid., p.222.

41
American Heritage,
February/March 1980, p. 20.

42
Mencken,
The American Language,
suppl. 1, p. 647.

43
Ibid., p. 646.

44
Castleman and Podrazik,
Watching TV,
p. 14.

45
Ibid., p. 71.

46
Ernst and Schwarz,
Censorship,
p. 95.

47
Sagarin,
The Anatomy of Dirty Words,
p. 167.

48
Safire,
Coming to Terms,
p. 51.

49
The Economist,
28 November 1992, p. 35.

50
Safire, op. cit., p. 100.

51
Letter from Allan M. Siegal, 23 July 1993.

52
Funk,
A Hog on Ice and Other Curious Expressions,
p. 88.

53
Buffalo News,
20 September 1992.

19: The Road from Kitty Hawk

1
American Heritage,
June 1970, pp. 61–9.

2
Moolman,
The Road to Kitty Hawk,
p. 124.

3
American Heritage,
June 1970, pp. 61–9.

4
Moolman, op. cit., p. 117.

5
Ibid., p. 158.

6
American Heritage,
April 1975, pp. 94–5.

7
Milton,
Loss of Eden,
p. 42.

8
Ibid., p. 116; and
American Heritage,
April 1971, pp. 43–7, 81–4.

9
Milton, op. cit., p. 127.

10
American Heritage,
December 1975, pp. 23–8.

11
Milton, op. cit., p. 166.

12
Johnson,
Modern Times,
p. 224.

13
Condé Nast Traveler,
December 1989, pp. 135–78.

14 P. Smith,
A People’s History of the United States,
vol. 4, p. 780.

15
American Heritage,
August 1973, pp. 63–85.

20: Welcome to the Space Age: The 1950s and Beyond

1
Lingeman,
Don’t You Know There’s a War On?,
p. 374.

2
Atlantic Monthly,
January 1990, p. 48.

3
The Economist,
21 December 1991, p. 72.

4
Oakley,
God’s Country,
p. 270.

5
Ibid., pp. 285–6.

6
Kroc,
Grinding It Out,
p. 162.

7
Love,
McDonald’s,
p. 5.

8
Guardian,
10 May 1993.

9
Binford,
The First Suburbs,
p. 1.

10
American Heritage,
February/March 1984, pp. 21–37.

11
Mencken,
The American Language,
4th edn., p. 245.

12
American Demographics,
May 1993, p. 44.

13
Independent on Sunday,
15 November 1992, p. 8.

14
Jackson,
Crabgrass Frontier,
p. 246

15
Ibid., p. 247; and Schrank,
Snap, Crackle, and Popular Taste,
p. 65.

16
Brooks,
Business Adventures,
p. 35.

17
Lacey,
Ford,
p. 489.

18
Brooks, op. cit., p. 31.

19
Rae,
The Road and the Car in American Life,
p. 48.

20
Schrank, op. cit., p. 64.

21
American Speech,
66/1 (1991), pp. 105–6.

22
The Economist,
26 October 1991, America Survey, pp. 11–12.

23
Boorstin,
The Americans: The Democratic Experience,
pp. 591–2.

24
R. Bailey,
Images of English,
p. 221.

25
Tedlow,
New and Improved,
p. 348.

26
Life,
3 March 1961, pp. 109–17.

27
Flatow,
They All Laughed,
p. 181.

28
Carver, A
History of English in Its Own Words,
p. 263.

29
The Economist,
9 January 1993, p. 62.

30
New York Times,
3 April 1989, p. 1.

31
Atlanta Journal and Constitution,
2 August 1992, p. M1.

32
American Heritage,
June 1970, p. 59.

21: American English Today

1
Atlantic Monthly,
November 1990, p. 84.

2
New York Times,
21 January 1992, p. C6.

3
Atlantic Monthly,
August 1990, pp. 28–33.

4
Ibid., p. 28.

5
The Economist,
8 August 1992, p. 41.

6
Ibid., 18 January 1992, p. 80.

7
Atlantic Monthly,
November 1990, p. 87.

8
Ibid., August 1990, p. 30.

9
Schor,
The Overworked American,
p. 13.

10
American Heritage,
May/June 1988, p. 10.