Book award like a beauty contest ?

The phony Wizard of Oz is showing up everywhere in our

    culture. A Nobel Prize winner -who did deserve it - writes that

    he learned this simple truth while still a fresh faced graduate

    student : There are no wise old men behind magnificent doors looking

    after us ! The President, the Pope, the King, the Celebrity -all are

    as clueless as we are. But everywhere we are bamboozled by GREAT

    PRETENDERS.

              Now it seems that even THE GREAT AUTHOR may be just

    another humbug. A judge for the National Book Award confesses

    that it was simply impossible for him to read all those books

    he pretended to read.

                 I guess books are judged by their cover. But beauty

    contests are more honest: Nobody pretends that those half naked

    BROADS  can also qualify for MENSA.

             It looks like some kid in the library was assigned: " Profiles

    in Courage ".  Not the scholarly type himself,I suspect . But someday

    -with the help of steroids - he just might win the Super Bowl for

    the New England Patriots.

            That Holden kid in " Catcher in the Rye " got it right about

    all the phonies out there !

                 Now I must buy all those Christmas cards for dear

    friends and relatives. Don't forget the boss !