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SHADY GOODS

I know Tom Wolfe has been all over the papers lately, but I can't help quoting his Sunday Times assessment of the decline of New York's thinking classes. Not surprisingly, many of them are in a funk at the moment:

"It reminds me of Pauline Kael, the film critic, who said, 'I don’t know how Reagan won — I don’t know a soul who voted for him.' That was a classic and reflects the reaction of New York intellectuals now. Note my definition of “intellectual” here is what you often find in this city: not people of intellectual attainment but more like car salesmen, who take in shipments of ideas and sell them on."

|||Clive|||http://clivedavis.blogspot.com/2004/11/shady-goods-i-know-tom-wolfe-has-been.html|||11/07/2004 11:36:00 pm|||||||||

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