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...asininity of 'secret ceremonies'; the moronic emphasis upon 'activities' totally unrelated to-in fact antithetical to-intellectual exploration." There was also "the aping of the worst American traits-boosterism, Godfearing-ism, smug ignorance, a craven worship of conformity." Grist for the Gates mill? Never. "To even care about such adolescent nonsense one would have to have the sensitivity of a John O'Hara, who seems to have taken it all seriously." But not while he was in college; O'Hara never got that...
Their frustration was apparent at the Klan rally. There were about 100 people there, including the wives and children who munched hot dogs and sipped cokes while they watched the white-robed menfolk mill around the farm. To an outsider, they were fascinating, evoking both pity and horror; it is difficult to understand the depth of the hatred they nurture. Despite tentative signs of a Klan revival, most of these men seemed to sense, beneath the bravado, that their traditions and their rhetoric are impotent. They quoted the bible, cursed the "niggers," and smiled as the words "racism" and "prejudice...
...factories. One, called Pacific Northwestern University, offered a bachelor's degree in an assortment of subjects for $85, a master's for $140 and a doctorate for $195, as well as authentic-looking transcripts. P.N.U. was closed down last spring but not before creating 350 "graduates." Degree-mill operators can be indicted for mail fraud. Yet the legality of lying about academic accomplishments is murky. Employers could sue; but they usually just fire...
Elaine's, as even people in Peoria know, is that raffish gin mill on Manhattan's Upper East Side where the sleeker elements of publishing and broadcasting gather to eat roadhouse food and trade gossip. Over the years, journalists have grown into Hollywood-gauge celebrities, and Elaine's has now become so chic, so select, so humid with status and power, that some people would kill for a good table...
...prosper in the future. If they conclude that inflation continues to rob them of that chance, they may begin to question the system. Says Arthur Garcia, 43, who supports a wife and five children on a $19,000 wage as a worker in U.S. Steel's South Chicago mill: "You really want to revolt, but what can you do? I keep waiting for a miracle-for some guy who isn't born yet-and when he comes we'll follow him like he was John the Baptist." That is a chilling thought, and it only emphasizes...