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Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.

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Camille Paglia
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 2
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Endicott
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