Status Updates From Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing...

"Dudley was the fiercest looking man in the Bay Area, but there would be him and all his boys sitting around like a covey of secretary birds."

Wolfe, Tom. Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (p. 115). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition.

What would you do if you were a deaf-mute and shuffling and shitkicking through life and the government comes along and offers to pay you money for reading lips and playing C.I.A.… Chaser didn’t blame them any more than he’d blame a dog … They were being exploited like all the other Toms that didn’t know any better …

Wolfe, Tom. Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (p. 89).

"Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions. Politics, like Rock, Pop, and Camp, has its uses; but to put one’s whole status on the line for nostalgie de la boue in any of its forms would be unprincipled."

Wolfe, Tom. Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (p. 79). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition.

“Dat eesn’t what she’s asking—”

“Let me finish—let me answer the question—”

“You dun’t even listen to de kvestion—”

Wolfe, Tom. Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (p. 64). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition.

"At a party for La Causa, the grape workers, the fighting Chicanos—this was a little like bringing Ma Goldberg in to entertain the Stern Gang. But somehow it was … delicious to experience such weird status thrills …"

Wolfe, Tom. Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (pp. 38-39). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition.

"So, by 1965—as in 1935, as in 1926, as in 1883, as in 1866, as in 1820—New York had two Societies, “Old New York” and “New Society.”

Wolfe, Tom. Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (p. 29). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition.

“Lenny!” she said. “Tell the fringes to come on in!” Lenny was still in the back of the living room, near the hall. “Fringes!” said Lenny. “Come on in!”

(Lovely, with that, I'm a Wolfe fan)

Wolfe, Tom. Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (p. 11). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition.

"Who the hell was this Negro rising up from the piano and informing the world what an ass Leonard Bernstein was making of himself? It didn’t make sense, this superego Negro by the concert grand."

Wolfe, Tom. Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (p. 2). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition.