Re: A Fair Deal?

["Andrew Hagen" <xah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Queenan's book, "Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon" is
funny. Among other sensical observations, he heroically rebukes Billy
Joel for his horrendous Top 40 hits.

Andrew Hagen
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:58:31 -0800, Michael Perelman wrote:

>I found this cited elsewhere.  I don't know the book.
>
>Queenan, Joe. 1992. The Imperial Caddy: The Rise of Dan Quayle and the
>Decline and Fall of Practically Everything Else (New York: Hyperion).
>132-33: "Leftist intellectuals with hare-brained Marxist ideas get to
>control Stanford, MIT, Yale, and the American Studies department at the
>University of Vermont.  In return, the right gets IBM, Honeywell, Disney
>World, and the New York Stock Exchange.  Leftist academics get to tryout
>their stupid ideas on impressionable youths between 17 and 21 who don't
>have any money or power.  The right gets to tryout its ideas on North
>America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and parts of Africa,
>most of which take Mastercard.  The left gets Harvard, Oberlin, Twyla
>Tharp's dance company, and Madison, Wisconsin.  The right gets NASDAQ,
>Boeing, General Motors, Apple, McDonnell Douglas, Washington D.C.,
>Citicorp, Texas, CocaCola, General Electric, Japan, and outer space."
>
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>Michael Perelman
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