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Even in its expurgated form, there is much in the transcript that is vulgar and contemptible. Perhaps the low point occurs in this scatological exchange among the President, Haldeman and Ehrlichman about Dean's possible testimony before the Watergate committee...
...embarrassed by excellence: the liberals who roll that stone of Sisyphus known as equality. In their search for a standard of equality, these new egalitarians never dare to look up. They seek the lowest common denominator and establish it as the norm so that no one, however squalid or vulgar, need be left out of the American Dream...
However, the German Bunker, says the show's producer, Wolfgang Menge, is "more malicious, less human, more vulgar" than his American counterpart. The cocky, mustachioed Alfred was intended to be loathsome, and to impress his estimated 27 million viewers as such. Instead, his tirades have inspired a flood of laudatory mail: "Dear Herr Tetzlaff, you spoke right out of my heart," or "Keep on! You have millions of people on your side." Archie Bunker, when he first appeared, got his share of similar support, but-in the eyes of a critical national and foreign press, at least-Archie...
...Then, a "high White House official" was quoted in Time magazine to the effect that "the name of the game (in the White House) is who can screw the Post the most." (A "high Time official" later identified to me the White House source of this vulgar little gem as Mr. William Safire, then a special assistant to President Nixon, now a columnist for The New York Times...
...goes all thought of standards, judgment and improved tastes. But what a patronizing way to enshrine equality! For example, the real claim of the blues to be taken seriously when set against contemporary classical music (so much of which is technically accomplished but derivative and sterile) turns on the vulgar vitality, beauty and originality of the music, and not on the "different socioeconomic and educational circumstances" of its performers or its audience...