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Article: Jessica thumbs her nose. (Jessica Mitford at California State University at San Jose) (first printed in Winter, 1974-75)
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- May 1, 1994
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When I first met Jessica Mitford - in 1973 just after she had been fired from her job as a professor of sociology at San Jose State - I used to wonder how the wealthy, manor-born, imperious Jessica ever came to be teaching at a lumpen prole place like San Jose State. Then, reading Jessica's autobiography one day, I came across a line that explains, I think, not only why Jessica came to teach at San Jose State, but why she has done many things: "Oliver Twist," Jessica's line goes, "was so lucky to live in a fascinating orphanage." In any event, driving through the smogbound, moldering mess that is downtown San Jose, California, driving past the decayed rows of ...