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Does Jimmy Carter really think that a President can "hide in the White House" as he has accused Jerry Ford of doing? If so, Carter is in for a rude shock should...
Professor Hubbard talks a lot about reality. If you want to go hide in the closet, or pop a peyote button, that's fine, but that route's a dead...
...amount of praise for the social reforms that Mao Tse-tung brought to the Chinese people will ever hide the fact that he ranks with Hitler and Stalin because of the millions of people he had murdered or who died because of his actions...
Fain or no Fain, the author of that sentence is Renata Adler. Who else could hide a land mine under well-tended prose with quite as much apparent innocence? It takes a second or two to realize that intellectuals have been exempted from the frantic metamorphoses demanded by modern life. Why? The answer comes in bits and pieces: anyone who accepts (or demands) the label intellectual is automatically too dumb to deserve it. To prove the point, Adler puts her heroine through a year of teaching, "by mistake," at a Manhattan college, surrounded by "feather bedding illiterates" and "reactionary pedants...
...great big man what he's interested in." At its best, this politeness produces the immensely attractive surface of Southern life. At its worst, it produces an ingrained falseness and bottled-up anger. Billie Carr, a Memphis-born clinical psychiatric counselor, says, "I was raised to hide myself. I was used to being two people...