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245 00 $aDumbing down :$bessays on the strip mining of American culture /$cedited by Katharine Washburn and John F. Thornton ; introduction by John Simon.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$c1996.
300 $a329 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aPt. 1. Education. The postmodern schoolhouse -- The question of our speech: the return to aural culture -- Writing down together -- The erosion of the social sciences -- The saving minutes -- Circling the squires -- Pt. 2. Arts & sciences. Last night at the planetarium -- Voodoo science -- I'll take my stand: a defense of popular culture -- The last taboo -- What to do about the arts -- Pt. 3. The media. "But first, a word from our sponsor": advertising and the carnivalization of culture -- Homo virtualis -- The facts of fiction and the fiction of facts -- pt. 4. Public life -- Egalitarianism and diversity -- Kitsch religion --America's fantasy urbanism: the waxing of the mall and the waning of civility -- The trivialization of tragedy -- "I feel good to be a black male" -- Pt. 5. Private life. Cooking dumb, eating dumb -- What's the story? -- Does sex still exist?
520 $aContains the controversial David R. Slavitt article concerning a student of his at Penn, who had graduated from Phillips Andover, where Slavitt had attended high school.
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700 1 $aWashburn, Katharine.
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700 1 $aSlavitt, David R.,$d1935-$0(NOBLE)45834
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