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| | CNN.com - Lance Morrow sings of America - July 5, 2000 |
 | | In "My Love Affair With America," however, the tone is nostalgic, occasionally tender and only intermittently combative. |
 | | Podhoretz, growing up poor in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, spoke with such a fierce Brooklyn accent that after he told a teacher "I goink op de stez" ("I'm going up the stairs"), he was placed in a remedial English class that left him speaking English of accentless, place-neutral gentility. |
 | | He has always sought, by means of his writing and editing, to do what Whitman dreamed of doing with his poem -- sort out the mess, make it coherent, whole. |
| archives.cnn.com /2000/US/07/05/morrow7_03.a.tm (685 words) |
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