"The Miss America contest is the 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 of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition."

Early, Gerald · Entertainment · 0 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12534">The Miss America contest is the 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 of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2200">Early, Gerald</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/entertainment/">Entertainment</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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"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 to soothe egoistic distemper."

Early, Gerald · Awards · 0 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3656">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 to soothe egoistic distemper..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2200">Early, Gerald</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/awards/">Awards</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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"I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball."

Early, Gerald · Civilization · 0 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/6948">I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2200">Early, Gerald</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/civilization/">Civilization</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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