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Although the jacket copy is appropriately dignified, twenty lashes to whoever wrote the release accompanying the book, which cites its appeal to “trivia buffs and curiosity seekers,” rather a down-market crowed compared to the higher echelons of literati to whom Adrian Room's books usually appeal.
By abandoning macroeconomics the profession not only leaves the world without guidance it desperately needs; it also risks letting the fuzzy-minded literati reclaim the ground they so deservedly lost 60 years ago.
I have few data to support me, and my stamina are not up to long, tedious research, but I have a hunch that media —the main agendum on many a pedant's plate these days—is well on its way to becoming a standard singular noun, except perhaps among hidebound literati and intransigent intelligentsia on various university campi, in style books, and in other blessed receptacles of holy semantic writ.
Or to be more precise, it is territory that the literati definitively lost to the nerds only about 30 years ago--and they want it back.
The white literati appreciated Ellison because he didn't drag the bugaboo of race into the literary act.