`` His address '', Walter added, `` is that great foundling home, the American Express.

Now I wish to enter the American market, where the competition is very strong.

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

BMEWS intelligence is simultaneously flashed to NORAD ( North American Air Defense Command ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for interpretation ; ;

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

Obviously there has been no agreement on what American conservatism is, or rather, what it should be.

Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.

One thing you can say about Mr. Lyford is that he does not suffer from any insecurity as an American.

The picture is the more treacherous when it misrepresents the facts of American life.

The interesting thing about Mr. Lyford's approach, and the approach of the contributors to The Agreeable Autocracies ( Oceana Publications, 1961 ) to the situation of American civilization, is that it is concerned with comprehending the psychological relationships which are having a decisive effect on American life.

Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.

Mr. Stavropoulos is the U.N. legal chief and a very good man, but he is not fully versed on some technical points of American law ''.

The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.

He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.

Finally, there is the undeniable fact that some of the finest American fiction is being written by Jews, but it is not Jewish fiction ; ;

The bass guitar is used in many styles of music including rock, metal, pop, punk rock, country, reggae, gospel, blues, and jazz.

This emphasis on the misfits and the malcontents is the " punk " component of cyberpunk.

Chicano punk is a branch of Chicano rock.

He is best known for his pioneering activism in gay liberation and prison reform, but also for his writing about punk rock and subculture.

Among later titles, Maximum RocknRoll is a major punk zine, with over 300 issues published.

The 2007 bio drama What we do is secret, about the punk band The Germs, is done in a partial documentary style, with cast members addressing the camera as if being interviewed.

Siege's goal was maximum velocity: " We would listen to the fastest punk and hardcore bands we could find and say, ' Okay, we're gonna deliberately write something that is faster than them '", drummer Robert Williams recalled.

Kevin Sharp of Brutal Truth declares that " Horrified was and still is the defining core of what grind became ; a perfect mix of hardcore punk with metallic gore, speed and distortion.

Powerviolence is a raw and dissonant subgenre of hardcore punk.

Digital hardcore is an initially German hybrid of hardcore punk and hardcore techno.

Metalcore is a fusion genre that combines extreme metal with hardcore punk, and at the same time draws on groove metal.

Jello Biafra ( born Eric Reed Boucher ; June 17, 1958, Boulder, Colorado, United States ) is the former lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys, and is currently a musician and spoken word artist.

He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres, including pop, reggae, indie pop, indie rock, alternative rock, punk, hardcore punk, breakcore, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop, electronic music and dance music.

Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock.

The issue of authenticity is important in the punk subculture — the pejorative term " poseur " is applied to those who associate with punk and adopt its stylistic attributes but are deemed not to share or understand the underlying values and philosophy.

Bass guitar lines are often uncomplicated ; the quintessential approach is a relentless, repetitive " forced rhythm ," although some punk rock bass players — such as Mike Watt of The Minutemen and Firehose — emphasize more technical bass lines.

Breaking down the distance between performer and audience is central to the punk ethic.

Fan participation at concerts is thus important ; during the movement's first heyday, it was often provoked in an adversarial manner — apparently perverse, but appropriately " punk ".

For one thing, there is a natural belt of rock across the river bed ; ;

It is not my intention in this narrative to picture myself as a helpless victim moored to the rock of experience and left to the buffetings of chance.

This shelter could be built in regions where water or rock is close to the surface, making it impractical to build an underground shelter.

These are particularly suitable for regions where water or rock is close to the surface.

The African rock python, a close second, is followed in turn by the reticulate python.

The husband is usually a well-educated professional, preoccupied with his job -- often an organization man whose motto for getting ahead is: `` Don't rock the boat ''.

Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.

`` This is my rock ''.

Even though this is my rock, you can use it sometimes.

In its pathological form, spiritual anxiety may tend to " drive the person toward the creation of certitude in systems of meaning which are supported by tradition and authority " even though such " undoubted certitude is not built on the rock of reality ".

The largest natural contributor to public radiation dose is radon, a naturally occurring, radioactive gas found in soil and rock.

This is a limestone belt with parallel hard rock ridges left standing by erosion to form mountains.

It is not a true abalone at all, but a muricid, or rock snail.

An abalone iron is used to pry the abalone from the rock before it can fully clamp down.

Thus throwing a rock at someone for the purpose of hitting him is a battery if the rock in fact strikes the person and is an assault if the rock misses.

In the formation of an ordinary agate, it is probable that waters containing silica in solution — derived, perhaps, from the decomposition of some of the silicates in the lava itself — percolated through the rock and deposited a siliceous coating on the interior of the vapour-vesicles.

Several vapour-vesicles may unite while the rock is still viscous, and thus form a large cavity which may become the home of an agate of exceptional size ; thus a Brazilian geode lined with amethyst and weighing 35 tons was exhibited at the Düsseldorf Exhibition of 1902.

The first deposit on the wall of a cavity, forming the " skin " of the agate, is generally a dark greenish mineral substance, like celadonite, delessite or " green earth ", which are rich in iron probably derived from the decomposition of the augite in the enclosing volcanic rock.

Andromeda is the daughter of an Aethiopian king in Greek mythology who, as divine punishment for her mother's bragging, the Boast of Cassiopeia, was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster aroused by the queen's hubris.