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*American as apple pie Cliché quintessential American. (*Also: as ~.) A small house with a white picket fence is supposed to be as American as apple pie. American dream the idealistic notion that Americans are preoccupied with obtaining certain materialistic goals. The American dream of home ownership, a car in the garage, and a chicken in every pot started in the early thirties. See also: dream be as American as apple pie to be typically American Country and western music is as American as apple pie. as American as apple pie having qualities that are thought to be typical of the US or of the people of the US Blue jeans are as American as apple pie. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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According to his successor, Cohen's credo represented the
magazine's grand design: "To lead the family out of the desert
of alienation in which it had been wandering for so long and into the
promised land of democratic, pluralistic, prosperous America where it
would live as blessedly in its Jewishness as in its Americanness. "Though I've come to
realize my Americanness is unconquerable, Zionism is no worm-eaten
ideology to me," he writes. In her critical work, Playing in
the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Morrison comments on
"thematics of innocence" that typically define Americanness in
literature. |
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