Re: Regarding Rachel's question:

Judy Diamondstone (diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu)
3 Sep 1998 17:10:47 -0000

Rachel, WHERE is there an in-your-face-ish
alternative to Babbitistic "aren't we HAPPY?"
conventions?? What's the plane fare?

Judy

At 08:07 PM 9/2/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Ellice, I stand corrected. But I think he was a Middle-Westerner too,
>and moved by the same exasperations as Mencken was. Veblen turned out to
>be all too right in his fears of majority rule producing mediocrity. But
>now I think we've stood Babbitt on his head, and the taboo nowadays is to
>be too conventional, rebellion is de riguer, and not to be in-your-face
>is proof positive that one is not a serious thinking person. When was
>the last time you met someone who admitted to being happy?
>
>Rachel Heckert
>
>>I believe "The Devil's Dictionary" was written by Ambrose Bierce.
>>Ellice Forman
>
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