The truth is that this bookis shorton reasonedanalysisand long on animus, directed at eliteuniversities, at administrators, and more than anything else at the “professoriate,” as they call it.
That was in 1963, at a time when the classical-music establishment was still in thrall to the postwar professoriate of Austro-German composers and their foreign epigones who believed that the future of music lay not with traditional harmony but with Schoenberg-style serialism.
Indeed, most public commentary, both by the law school professoriate and the Muslim Brotherhood aligned apologists for sharia, begin their remarks identically with a snide, if not "snarky, " criticism to the effect that the ill-informed electorate of Oklahoma (70% of those voting) misguidedly thought they were responding to an existential threat that doesn't exist.