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Title: Dry & mindless prose
Review: Sorry, I don't get the attraction. On & on, an endless editorial on the American cultural condition, in dry & occasionally mindless prose. Like its contemporary, Cultural Literacy, Bloom's The Closing of... is critical tepidity to make smug ignoramuses feel bright. In other words, it's the best we have. When Bloom tackles pop music, you can feel not only waves of ignorance about his topic but an undercurrent of indifference as well.I finally read this because I thought it might be part of my cultural education. But it wasn't; however, it's legacy remains firm: newspaper commentary & those Sunday morning public affairs programs are packed with the recycled themes of curmudgeonly Mr. Bloom & presented in the same self-absorbed fashion.
