![]() ![]() Our civilization, deformed as it is outwardly, is still an accomplishment all this had to come to light. The European traveler, viewing with distaste a movie palace or a Motorola, is only looking into the terrible concavity of his continent of hunger inverted startlingly into the convex. The most successful careerist of the group is the cool, dispassionate, and ambitious Libby MacAusland, who becomes a literary agent and marries a novelist. Sixteen years later, in an interview with the Observer, McCarthy remembered thinking that the book had ruined her life. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency? The ugliness of American decoration, American entertainment, American literature - is not this the visible expression of the impoverishment of the European masses, a manifestation of all the backwardness, deprivation, and want that arrived here in boatloads from Europe? The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. The Group by Apoorva Tadepalli Within six weeks of when Mary McCarthy’s The Group came out in August 1963, the book was number one on the New York Times best-seller list before the year was out, film rights had been purchased. ![]() ![]() It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. “This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. ![]()
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