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Title: funny, cruel
Review: Fussell himself admitted that this book was possibly too mean-spirited, and his title points out that it really isn't about class but status. So, he's using the word "class" in the sense of "that dame ain't got no class."And, for that reason, the book is really pernicious, making us think that status is something that actually matters. Fussell may feel that his superior education gives him the right to look down on fat women in stretch pants, but Dick Cheney, with his prole's jutting jaw and crummy degree, still decides the energy policy of the US and gets us into a stupid war, a war incidentally that the likes of Paul Fussell would have been forced to fight in before he got that superior degree.
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