"The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench."

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The Miss America contest isthe 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