Camille, in terms of the achievement of Sexual Personae, belongs at a place like Yale or Harvard or Princeton or Chicago or Berkeley. But they will not have her. One of the many, many signs of the incredible decadence of our academic institutions is that someone as brilliant, as learned, as talented, and as ferociously burning an intellect as Camille Paglia is much less likely to win conferment at one of our major universities than any of these humdrum bureaucrats of resentment who are appointed by others in the network because they are politically correct.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Camille, in terms of the achievement of Sexual Personae, belongs at a place like Yale or Harvard or Princeton or Chicago or Berkeley. But they will not have her. One of the many, many signs of the incredible decadence of our academic institutions is that someone as brilliant, as learned, as talented, and as ferociously burning an intellect as Camille Paglia is much less likely to win conferment at one of our major universities than any of these humdrum bureaucrats of resentment who are appointed by others in the network because they are politically correct." in the context of "Harold Bloom, quoted in "Woman Warrior" by Francesca Stanfill, New York Magazine, 4 March 1991, vol. 24 no. 9, p. 30." to mean that wisdom is timeless.