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• The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.

  Gerald Early
  American essayist and American (1952 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• respectability
• middle-class
• vulgarity
• polished
• ambition
• wants

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