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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Reading carefully, I’ve found, improves one’s chances of understanding!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=verizon.net@lists.service.ohio-state.edu [mailto:vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=verizon.net@lists.service.ohio-state.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stuart N. Clarke<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 03, 2014 3:58 AM<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></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span 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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>“</span><span 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 style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span 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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span 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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Stuart<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span 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> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> Sunday, August 03, 2014 2:30 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" title="vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">'VWOOLF listserv'</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Subject:</span></b><span 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></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Cheers!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:black'>Linda Camarasana<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:black'>SUNY Old Westbury<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> </span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> </span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <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>] <br><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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=481 style='width:360.6pt'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=16 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#F0F4F5'><tr><td colspan=2 style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 style='border:none;border-top:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Sent by <a href="mailto:camarasanal@oldwestbury.edu">camarasanal@oldwestbury.edu</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><span style='color:black'><img border=0 width=105 height=15 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://i1.nyt.com/images/misc/nytlogo194x27.gif"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:white;border-top:#EEEEEE 1.0pt;border-left:#EEEEEE 1.0pt;border-bottom:#CFCFCF 2.25pt;border-right:#DDDDDD 1.5pt;border-style:solid;border-radius: 4px'><tr><td valign=top style='border:none;padding:10.5pt 9.0pt 10.5pt 10.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><img 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