Native soil
McCarthy, Abigail
The Turkic Central Asians are, for the most part, a has the lowest standard of living and education. The construc- homogeneous group of people, who still retain their traditional ...
...Like most nineteenth century American hearts-that of kissing the soil ity," an idea which certainly appeals to first-generation immigrants, my greatwhen he arrives in a new land...
...intensify and even lead to the revival of Pan-Islamic or Pan- Most importantly, the high Muslim birth rate will potenTurkic movements with the desire to join the Islamic states tially alter the ethnic composition of the Soviet armed forces...
...leadership and policy-making circles will be one of the most GEORGE LIBER important consequences of this demographic change...
...nesota that "culture" belongs to the and great effects, but they seem to diMinnesota has surely shaped us...
...But the mystical pull grandparents seemed to spend very little It is not that it is not a deeply felt of native soil remains strong in him...
...The gestures that land is tragic...
...These changes will have serious economy and the military preparedness of the Soviet Union, ecoomic and political consequences not only on the future testing the Russian-dominated Soviet government's ability to balance of power within the Soviet Union, but also on future control its restive non-Russian areas...
...For many, not to an elite, as T.S...
...My understanding of commu- although not essentially different, does I think of all these things and think that nity, of education, of political order and not seem so dire...
...I much of a drink but it is certainly the best agency to tap in on any American high have been told by one of those whose thing you can do with Coca Cola...
...And I To generalize about Minnesota-or women were better-educated than the extend that to America...
...It is quite literally in my that his communication with us personhood to a native land as one does bones, nourished by Minnesota air and seems to be on a deeper level than any we to father and mother...
...It was as if they began writes that Minnesota has learned to plunderers of a continent...
...It is the tradition in Min- well...
...process, grew out of the Minnesota ex- attention to practical change...
...what appeared to have been a tri-partite with a mythology...
...Its early settlement took place during two centuries when rivers were at once bar- TAE INVASION OF CUBA riers and paths of travel...
...Alabama...
...by another that it is and William Randolph Hearst advising came out of the hills and took over, as the most pleasure-loving...
...It is time yearning for that which they had left gesture...
...They come from a matrix of being American, are conditioned by the Minnesotans tend to take educational simplicity and dreams-where social Minnesota experience, as those of others opportunity for granted...
...Somehow, we've never gotten reaction that there may not have been any in a place where huge men clad in back to that high romantic level of at all, just a sophisticated acceptance that Commonweal: 648...
...I was preparing a talk on my Minnesota heritage when the Pope touched NATIVE SOIL ground in Boston and the speculation I LOVE IT BUT I DO NOT HOLD IT SACRED aroused 'in me by his gesture-which had not seemed so strange to me when he arrived in Ireland and Mexico-colored my thinking from then on...
...In the his- I love it, but I do not hold it sacred, perience...
...The woman's struggle, things seem possible...
...candidate in Soviet and East Euronewly-promoted Central Asian elite will most likely attempt to pean history at Columbia University and co-editor of Nonconallocate more capital investment for Soviet Central Asia, formity and Dissent in the Ukrainian SSR, 1955-1975: An which in contrast to the country's Russian and European areas, Annotated Bibliography...
...him intellectually...
...Longfellow provided it and Coca Cola with a slice of lime...
...It is Main Street and Babbitt Sinclair Lewis church...
...But not ours...
...ABIGAIL McCARTHY bounded on almost all sides by riversby the St...
...It seems to me any homeland-is risky...
...Yet there is one of his gestures Poles in Chicago . . . this, despite his the land to which we came-our promwhich I feel has little resonance in almost lyric description of our "new un- ised land...
...Russian is minimal and whose allegiance on issues important As a res6lt'of the ethnic shift in the Soviet population growth to Muslims may be at variance with the policies of the central and the emergence of Central Asian assertiveness, the Mus- government, will compromise its combat readiness and relialims will exert great pressure on the political structure, the bility, especially in Asia...
...demanding unity" which forms a counreality but of offering their own...
...Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy literature)-and one which has proved providential for Poland...
...folk balladeers sang, I've always assumed, without really alliance of him, the CIA and the Mafia to "Come to Minnesota, the glory of the knowing, that the name and the drink run brothels and casinos in Havana, alWest...
...In and the unity which forms a universal other states, is a geographic entity...
...It will also harm the republics...
...bordering the Soviet Union...
...tory of many Minnesota families the except as all things are sacred...
...California may be an idea...
...His assent to life with the journey and the adventure make its cities beautiful (they were al- and dissent from, those values set up his and the new home...
...I know that my sense ficult poetry and thirteen thousand turned (once a white knight), Judy Garland and of being a woman, of being Catholic, of out to hear him...
...One can document this good or ill it is for us forever the measure covered when he came to read his dif- in lives as various as those of Stassen of all other places...
...But it was not so much common in our experience as children of apparent in his consoling remarks to the the land from which we have sprung as God...
...But,' due to their rapid growth, their resentment productivity of the Soviet economy...
...If a radical relocation of industry republics and of developing alphabets and literary languages from the west to the east is not implemented soon, this populafor the Muslims in the 1920s thwarted the spread of Pan- tion shift will intensify both the manpower shortage in the Islamic and Pan-Turkic movements...
...For years we legendary during the years of exploration back to when Cuba Libre was a rum supported the military dictator Batista in and settlement...
...scene that, outside of Texas, it is the most charging-on foot-up San Juan Hill That ended, of course, when Castro chauvinistic of states...
...The recent revolution in Iran will The conscription of more non-Russians, whose knowledge of most likely, help revive Soviet Pan-Islamic aspirations...
...And it is a beautiful trait...
...Min- And yet Minnesota's best known writ- try from the many not united by blood, nesota, it seems to me, more than many ers do not give a good report of it...
...On the deepest level he parents and grandparents and greatspeak to the universal, to that which is can only conceive it in that way as was grandparents, too...
...It is one reason Polish earth...
...Separation from food and water, as were those of my could establish with words...
...Yet Wolf von Eckhardt, ity was always flawed by the superficial homesteading on the bluffs overlooking Washington-based critic of urban art, values of the Minnesota rich, heirs to the the Mississippi...
...They are given to brilliant starts, and there...
...Bob Dylan...
...Min- came out of our war of liberation for lowing Batista to be a big cheese, the nesota is definitely a place...
...It isn't really that Mafia to cut the crap game and the Minnesota evokes strong reactions...
...Soviet relations with the Islamic Third World, China and the Greater pressure for the admission of Central Asians into the United States...
...us in the succeeding generations to and high level of theater, music and all Minnesota's most talented achievers, search out the heritage "beyond the wa- the performing arts available to almost all like Fitzgerald, do not seem to transplant ter" and the far-flung family spread here of its citizens...
...Country and land are sacred to a very Slavic trait-(think of "Mother behind...
...The (George Liber is Ph.D...
...A Boston re- his combat artist, Frederick Remington, you can see in the late middle of Godporter fled the scene some years ago in- "you provide the pictures, I'll provide father IL We know so little of the Mafia's sisting that he could not be comfortable the war...
...For him one owes one's tical sense...
...Those rollers who might be subject to business it is to comment on the national were the heady days of the Rough Riders blackmail...
...During the Soviet period, European USSR and the growing pressure of large, immobile the Muslims came to identify themselves with their respective labor reserves in Soviet Central Asia...
...The construchomogeneous group of people, who still retain their traditional tion of new housing, the expansion and renovation of ~ the way of life and who are immune from assimilating into the region's public services and the increased expenditutts for Russian cultural sphere...
...At the turn of the twentieth century, education in non-Russian languages will strain the Soviet, the peoples of Central Asia had little sense of their national economy, already overburdened by the demands of its identity...
...it has always change has been rapid and where all are by New England or California or been available...
...As the effusions A BREAKTHROUGH IN WARFARE of many nineteenth century eastern writers bear witness, its natural beauty was I DON'T KNOW about you, but I go Cuban-American relations...
...There was a strong oral tradition the man whose ancestors for more than a Russia" like a refrain in 19th century in our family but I am struck now by the 23 November 1979: 647 fact that the stories passed down to me sheepskin-lined coats (Oh yes, Min- made its small towns a byword for were all about the journey down the nesota winters are cold), drank "dish- bigotry, narrowness, materialism and Great Lakes and the rivers of Wisconsin pan sized" martinis and ate platter-sized hypocrisy...
...The reflections men since it was they who became school that this is a pre-condition for the kind of of any one writer needs the correction of teachers while the men carried on with unity of which the pope spoke to us- "a others-not in the sense of denying my the family farm or business...
...Croix, and the Mississippi on the east, the Pigeon, the Rainy (and the Of several minds: Frank Getlein border lakes) on the north, the Red River to the west...
...Was Min0 UR JOHN PAUL II has a gift for the thousand years have lain in consecrated nesota my native land in this rather myssymbolic gesture...
...Eliot dis- minish with time...
...This downturn in proagainst the influx of migrants from the European areas of the ductivity will increase Soviet dependence on agricultural and USSR, and the increasing realization of their colonial status, technological imports from the West, contributing to the Tatthe ethnic assertiveness of the Central Asians will most likely ter's spiraling inflation...
...It was left for those of ways clean), and that it has a great variety disastrous inner conflict...
...there seems to be more Minnesota is part of me-but only a part...
...F. Scott Fitzgerald's sensibiland then up the Mississippi, and of steaks...
...Cuba against Spain...
...Its southern quarter is formed by the Minnesota and its tributaries...
...The Soviet policy of dividing Turkestan into separate military-industrial complex...
Vol. 106 • November 1979 • No. 21
