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Instead of making education inaccessible, another New York bred intellectual technique made information available to the public, but strictly on the intellectuals' terms. The notion of the intellectual-as-expert is ultimately a cynical one, which seeks to mold popular thought. The scheme was first practiced by Walter Lippman for The New Republic, and his inheritors on that magazine remain true to Lippman's model of insider journalism by making frequent guest appearances on Washington-based talk shows...
...fighting bulldogs of 19th century England. In 2 1/2 years it has been responsible for 16 deaths across the country, six of them in the past year, leading many municipalities to pass laws to restrict ownership. It is estimated that there are now 500,000 unregistered, often poorly bred pit bullterriers in the U.S. So fearsome is the dog's reputation that it has become imbued with much the same malevolent aura as the beast in Arthur Conan Doyle's story. That is exactly the effect sought by some owners, among them dog-fighting enthusiasts, members of street gangs...
...four days of testimony, North had accumulated a foot-high pile of telegrams of support (GOD BLESS YOU, GOOD LUCK AGAINST THOSE ILL-BRED HYENAS). Dozens of floral bouquets were delivered to the Norths on Capitol Hill...
...fund to pay for North's security system. In Washington, the epicenter of the Ollie phenomenon, the offices of Congressmen on the committee were besieged with letters and telegrams running 20 to 1 in favor of North. "Keep your chin up," said one; "Good luck against those ill-bred hyenas," said another. North has personally received some 15,000 telegrams of encouragement. All the while, Ollie-entrepreneurs were trying to capitalize on the fascination. At a Young Republicans' convention in Seattle, Joel Shelton sold out his 20 $4 Oliver North buttons (LT. COL. OLIVER NORTH -- ANAMERICAN HERO -- DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY...
...preparing for Harvard in the South, the deep South dead since 1865 and peopled with garrulous outraged baffled ghosts...and the Quentin Compson who was still too young to deserve yet to be a ghost, but nevertheless having to be one for all that, since he was born and bred in the deep South...--William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom...