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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I think I see the article author’s main point, but am dubious about some of the claims—notably the equation of “middlebrow” with
“democracy.” But I am grateful for the link to Woolf’s (unsent) letter, which I don’t remember having read before. I love it! So full of wit and rage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> vwoolf-bounces+caroline.webb=newcastle.edu.au@lists.service.ohio-state.edu
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Stuart N. Clarke<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 3 August 2014 5:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'VWOOLF listserv'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] Woolf and the middlebrow, from today’s New York Times<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I didn’t read this article carefully, but I couldn’t make any sense of it at all. I don’t know where the author got this from:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The nature of capitalism, we have been taught to believe, tends toward greater equality, wider opportunity and the
leveling of archaic, invidious distinctions based on pedigree. Mr. Piketty throws cold water on this conventional wisdom, which has been part of the intellectual birthright of nearly everyone born in the West since the end of World War II.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Is this some sort of “trickle down” effect, argued by -- is it Milton Friedman?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I suppose it’s appropriate that the article should have quoted Woolf’s “letter”, which, although not really difficult to understand (esp. ever since Melba Cuddy-Keane
deconstructed it), is difficult to absorb because the reader tends to come at it with his/her own prejudices. I came at the NYT article with my own prejudices, yet somehow I doubt that Melba will be able clarify it for me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">
<a href="mailto:camarasana@mindspring.com" title="camarasana@mindspring.com">Linda Camarasana</a>
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August 03, 2014 2:30 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Subject:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> [Vwoolf]
Woolf and the middlebrow, from today’s New York Times<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Cheers!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Linda Camarasana<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">SUNY Old Westbury<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<a href="mailto:emailthis@ms3.lga2.nytimes.com">emailthis@ms3.lga2.nytimes.com</a> [<a href="mailto:emailthis@ms3.lga2.nytimes.com">mailto:emailthis@ms3.lga2.nytimes.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 02, 2014 9:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:camarasana@mindspring.com">camarasana@mindspring.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> NYTimes.com: A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture
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