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...such moments the satirist turns reactionary. That is why Wolfe wiggles his eyebrows when he hears wealthy Easterners proclaim a distaste for fancy living and a love of the underprivileged: "Everybody had sworn off fashion, but somehow nobody moved to Cincinnati to work among the poor." That is why he deflates the comic-strip balloons that people who think they are humane so often utter: "Or as a well-known, full-grown socialite. Amanda Burden, said ... 'The sophistication of the baby blacks has made me rethink my attitudes.' " That is why he mocks the now pieties...
...First we proclaim our long-concealed ardor...
...millions of eyes as both the finest specimens of their various races and cultures, and also as examples of America's most pressing domestic problems. Statistics about them are published to both laud their increasing participation in higher education and to decry their still inadequate enrollment; to both proclaim that they have surmounted educational deficiencies and that they are hopelessly incapable of competing within the highest of academic spheres. They are tested, touted, tracked, and tantalized with visions of glorious opportunity...
...nation are fortunate that school admissions officers have demonstrated a courage and a willingness to read, hear and disregard some of the materials which proclaim the infallibility of standardized tests. Unfortunately, much of such material fails to take into consideration the vast efforts and resources this country put into burning the scars of deprivation and inequality into millions of its citizens. The doors of opportunity were never open to any appreciable number of minority group people. To suggest that all things are equal and the same with various groups is nothing less than intellectual dishonesty...
...doubt many of the blacklistees never read any more Marx than Stahr did, but they found that they had to pay for it later. The most remarkable and admirable thing about the Hollywood Ten still, is that they took responsibility for their past and showed a willingness to proclaim their ownership of a collective legacy of principle. Some smart guys think they should have done things differently. Somebody named David Denby, a writer for the Boston Phoenix himself, has the gall to call them "hacks" and not radical enough. He says that their maneuvers were self-protective. This...