The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
It was common practice for me to take my children with me whenever I went shopping, out for a walk in a white neighborhood,… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
I think there are only three things that America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution,… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual,… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
“There are only three things that America will be remembered for 2000 years from now when they study this civilization: The Constitution, Jazz music,… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
