> Now I'm at sea *again.* Who/what is "Sahara of the Bozart?"
H.L.Menken - sturdy misanthropic curmudgeon - essayist and
opinionist during the first half of the 20th century. (And, i'm worried
that i've got his last name spelled incorectly.)
one of his essays was titled, The Sahara of the Bozart. A pun on
Beaux Arts. in which he indicted the middle-class-american boostering
Main Street-Babbitt-Grundyism-moralizing which he asserted flourished in
the 'bible-belt' and other kindred suburbs and back-waters of this great
nation of ours. One could expect to find oases of creationism &
phonics & behavorism in such a sahara, etc. etc. in short, the Jungian
shadow of these here fifty states. he was, in short, a social critic and
satirist in the vein of a malevolent W.C. Fields, perhaps, or Rousseau.
phillip
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