国家杂志将布什与纽曼放在一起比照，纽曼是疯狂杂志虚构的吉祥物，还连同一句对话：什么，我怕个屁？
The Nation compared Bush to Alfred E. Neuman, the fictional mascot of the magazine Mad, complete with a button that reads, What, me worry?
两本书有助于理清这些国家和种族的及其错综复杂的历史(真实的和虚构的)，对于未来，两者既没有一个简单的回答，也没有一个乐观的见解。
Both these books help disentangle the fiendishly complicated histories of national and tribal identities, real and invented. Neither has a simple answer nor an optimistic view of the future.
而公众一直到1983年4月《危险中的国家》一书出版后才感到这种虚构的威胁。
But it took the publication of "a Nation at Risk" in April 1983 to ratchet up the manufactured threat.
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