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"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 on Entertainment
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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 on Awards
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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 on Civilization
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