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...stereotypes has an effect on society. Ralph Ellison has said "it conditions the reader to accept the less worthy values of society. It is," to follow Ellison, "in the realm of the irrational... that the stereotype grows... The Negro stereotyped is really an image of the unorganized, irrational forces of American life, forces through which, by projecting them in forms of images of an easily dominated minority, the white individual seeks to be at home in the vast unknown world of America. Perhaps," Ellison concludes, "the object of the stereotypes is not so much to crush the Negro...
Mayer teases his reader in a subtler, more ambiguous way as well. Sandwiched between jibes at Yiddish, first love and Herbert Hoover is an apparently serious statement about American politics, values and mores. But the reader is never quite sure when Mayer crosses the line between humor and conviction. The angels in Heaven bustle about designing portable restrooms, and manna and nectar refreshment concessions for the up-coming gala bimillenium. ("We're expecting millions of tourists," Mary tells Brinkley.) The bumbling corruption of Soviet-American disarmament negotiators and the CIA's school for assassins are cleverly ridiculed, but the caricatures...
...journal will not serve just to publish papers. It will be for the reader and not the writer," Becker said...
...this slow development from the adolescent's misconception to his understanding of the old man, added to the hindsight of the grown-up narrator, that makes the characters come alive. In his leisurely, rambling pace, Taylor gives the reader a superb description of the Old South...
...section entitled, "Does Eric Sevareid's Kid Get Hit in School?" Hentoff advocates making corporal punishment flatly illegal in the remaining 48 states where "culturally-sanctioned acts of violence against children" are still allowed in schools. Hentoff uses one gory example after another, ad nauseum, to raise the reader's consciousness about the brutality of corporal punishment. Hentoff's technique closely resembles that of a muckraking journalist whose sensationalism leaves little room for serious social analysis...