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

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Gerald Early: "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's Quotations

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Ambition	America	Anxiety	Captures
Contest	Culture	Door	Highclass
Lowclass	Middleclass	Miss	Most
Open	Perfectly	Plain	Polished
Rendered	Respectability	Restatement	Ritual
Theater	Vulgarity	Wants	Yearn

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