In A Very Real Sense, People Who

The Great Thing About The United States Is Our Ability To Absorb Foreign People And Make Them A Part Of Us.

If You See In Any Given Situation Only What Everybody Else Can See, You Can Be Said To Be So Much A Representative Of Your Culture That You Are A Victim Of It.

In The Case Of Drama (stage, Movies, Television ), There Appear To Be People In Almost Every Audience Who Never Quite Fully Realize That A Play Is A Set Of Fictional, Symbolic Representations. An Actor Is One Who Symbolizes Other People, Real Or Imagined. [...] Also Some Years Ago It Was Reported That When Edward G. Robinson, Who Used To Play Gangster Roles With Extraordinary Vividness, Visited Chicago, Local Hoodlums Would Telephone Him At His Hotel To Pay Their Professional Respects.

People Who Think Of Themselves As Tough-minded And Realistic, Among Them Influential Political Leaders And Businessmen As Well As Go-getters And Hustlers Of Smaller Caliber, Tend To Take It For Granted That Human Nature Is Selfish And That Life Is A Struggle In Which Only The Fittest May Survive. According To This Philosophy, The Basic Law By Which Man Must Live, In Spite Of His Surface Veneer Of Civilization, Is The Law Of The Jungle. The "fittest" Are Those Who Can Bring To The Struggle Superior Force, Superior Cunning, And Superior Ruthlessness.

Definitions, Contrary To Popular Opinion, Tell Us Nothing About Things. They Only Describe People's Linguistic Habits; That Is, They Tell Us What Noises People Make Under What Conditions.