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...suffering from workaday eye-strain-the audio tomes are cassettes that are rented by mail at prices ranging from $6.50 to $7.50 plus $1.75 mailing charge for a 30-day period. Recorded by professional actors, the tapes for bookworms are grouped arbitrarily in six main categories: Americana (e.g., H.L. Mencken, Ring Lardner), Classics (Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain), Contemporary Fiction (Joseph Wambaugh, Irving Stone), History and War (Alan Moorehead, Hanson Baldwin), Fiction (Louis Auchincloss, F. Scott Fitzgerald) and Travel and Adventure (James Ramsey Ullman, Joshua Slocum). Current best renter of the more than 80 available titles: Walden. B.O.T. pays authors...
Meekly, we agree with H. L. Mencken's definition of our national character: we "constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goos-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages, and...grow more timorous, more sniveling, more poltroonish, more ignominious every day." How easy...
...been born a contemporary of Mencken's, Wolfe would have railed at the booboisie. As it happened, he arrived on the scene when progressives and liberals had seized the reins of established opinion−and when undreamed-of zaniness was abroad in the land. Stuffiness, traditions of all stripes were panting on the ropes; the mood was full throttle into a brave new world...
...have to be isolated. Nonetheless, shallow conclusions will only lead to greater inequities, and increasingly prisons will become cosmetics merely hiding society's deeper flaws. A frightened, receptive audience and a poorly defined field have allowed this political scientist to become a sociology dilettante. But then, as H.L. Mencken explained, "A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas...
...Since Mencken published his notorious essay in 1920, many oases have bloomed in that Sahara, among them the present-day Universities of North Carolina, Texas and Virginia as well as Duke, Vanderbilt, Rice and Tulane. Nevertheless, when indices of excellence are applied to higher education, the South, in general, comes up short. Slightly more than a quarter of the nation's 3,016 accredited institutions are located there, but a 1970 study showed that the South had only 5% of the nation's best graduate programs and just 8% of the best graduate faculties. In 1975 fewer than...