Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!cuae2!ltuxa!we53!wucs!wucec2!ph From: ph@wucec2.UUCP Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: wizard of oz == parable on Populism Message-ID: <1462@wucec2.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 12:12:31 EST Article-I.D.: wucec2.1462 Posted: Mon Mar 10 12:12:31 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Mar-86 02:41:28 EST References: <1516@sdcsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: ph@wucec2.UUCP (Paul Hahn) Organization: Washington U. in St. Louis, Engineering School Lines: 13 In article <1516@sdcsvax.UUCP> manderso@sdcsvax.UUCP (Mark Anderson) writes: >Here is a short sample from Henry Littlefield's "The Wizard of >Oz: Parable on Populism", American Quarterly spring 1964 pp. 47. > [list of parallels omitted] Fine. Now extend the allegory to the other 41 books in the series. I would say that this is another case of looking so hard for something that you find it where it isn't. --pH /* * "That's true. But some people who don't have brains do an * awful lot of talking, don't they?" */