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Marya Mannes, 59, and Milton Mayer, 55, are two of the more durable gadflies of U.S. letters-lifelong, card-carrying conscientious objectors. Between them, they provide a sort of check list of the more hoary cliches of Instant Social Criticism...
Public Slugging. Of the two, Mayer is both the more messianic and the more corrosive. A wisecracking, easygoing chap, he was a protege of the University of Chicago's Robert Maynard Hutchins, taught in Mortimer Adler's Great Books program before launching a career as a freelance writer and fulltime polemicist. He has been flailing away at his chosen targets-war, racial prejudice, big government-for something close to a quarter of a century. The secret of the art, he understands, is to avoid the complicating thought and the qualifying phrase; indeed, few writers have his knack...
...except, perhaps, the ancient Cossacks." With that vision of the violent society in mind, he goes on to argue that the U.S. gives away a little bit more of its "liberty" every time it yields to its fatal impulse to "horn into every war within reach." In fact, says Mayer, after two world wars, both of which he regards as U.S. defeats, "freedom is less well preserved than it was before those two wars began." He has no doubt that "Hitler indeed imposed Prussianism on us, but he was dead when he did it." Americans, says Mayer, "love...
Conformity is the U.S.'s worst social evil. In "The Case Against the Jew," Mayer argues not that the Jew has failed to become assimilated but that he has assimilated too much, placing his faith in "the grand fallacy of adjustment." The most insidious ally of conformity is the "Giant Economy-Size" government, which, "as it fends every evil from us, will end by fending every virtue from...
...Jean Mayer, associate professor of Nutrition in the Graduate School of Public Health, blasted the Boston School Committee Wednesday night for their persistent refusal to establish a government-subsidized school lunch program...