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III, William Alfred Henry was born on January 24, 1950 in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of William Alfred and Catherine Anne (Elliott) H.
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion to the largely unexamined myth of egalitarianism lies at the heart of the ongoing "dumbing of America." Americans have always stubbornly clung to the myth of egalitarianism, of the supremacy of the individual average man. But here, at long last, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic William A. Henry III takes on, and debunks, some basic, fundamentally ingrained ideas: that everyone is pretty much alike (and should be); that self-fulfillment is more imortant thant objective achievement; that everyone has something significant to contribute; that all cultures offer something equally worthwhile; that a truly just society would automatically produce equal success results across lines of race, class, and gender; and that the common man is almost always right. Henry makes clear, in a book full of vivid examples and unflinching opinions, that while these notions are seductively democratic they are also hopelessly wrong.
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III, William Alfred Henry was born on January 24, 1950 in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of William Alfred and Catherine Anne (Elliott) H.
Bachelor of Arts (Scholar of the House), Yale University, 1971; postgraduate in History, Boston University, 1973-1974.
Education writer, Boston Globe, 1971-1972;
arts critic, Boston Globe, 1972-1974;
state house political reporter, Boston Globe, 1974-1975;
editorial writer, Boston Globe, 1975-1977;
television editor and columnist, Boston Globe, syndicated Field News Service, 1977-1980;
also weekly book reviewer and occasional national and foreign political reporter. Critic-at-large, New York Daily News, 1980-1981;
associate editor, Time magazine, New York City, 1981-1989;
senior writer, Time magazine, New York City, 1989-1994;
press critic, Time magazine, New York City, 1982-1985;
theater critic, book reviewer, Time magazine, 1985-1994. Lecturer Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, other schools.
Member of faculty Tufts U., 1979, Yale University, 1980. Young American Leader traveling fellow European Economic Community, 1977;Poynter fellow in journalism Yale University, 1980. Member theater panel Mass.Coun. on the Arts, 1977-1980.
Clarence Derwent, Bayfield, Callaway andWeissberger awards drama judge. Tony awards voter; Pulitzer prize drama judge, 1986-1987, chairman, 1989-1990, 91-92, 93-94.
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Member task force Massachusetts Commission Education, 1972. Historian, board directors Stone Trust Corporation, New York City, 1971-1994, Proposition Workshop Inc., Cambridge, 1974-1994, Cambridge Ensemble, 1976-1980, Leukemia Society Greater Boston, 1978-1980. Member of advisory board Opera Ensemble New York, 1985-1991.
Secretary Yale Class 1971, 81-86, county, 1986-1994. Representative to Association Yale Alumni, 1986-1989. Active in fundraising for Yale University, various humane societies, arts groups.
Member American Civil Liberties Union, television Critics Association (founding treasurer 1978-1979, chairman speakers bureau and professional education 1979-1980, board directors 1980-1981), New York Drama Critics Circuit (vice president 1990-1991, president 1991-1993), American Theatre Critics Association (awards committee 1993-1994).
Married Gail Louisa Manyan, October 3, 1981.
