Re: In 2000, Oxford University Press gave C. Wright Mills classic stateme
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14 Aug 2022, 06:25
Which of the following can be inferred that the author of the passage believes regarding Mills’s depiction of the “power elite?”
A. Mills based some of his description of the power elite on those who worked on Wall Street.
"The New Edition’s fresh look is given by a cover wallpapered with photographs of The White House, Pentagon, and Wall Street, the hyperascendancy and anti-democratic integration of each sphere of national power therein symbolized described by Mills 50 years ago as having formed an emergent mid-century institution, a now-hidden, now-visible, American power elite that, swollen with hubris, often played God."
B. Mills always portrayed the relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union as a dangerous one.
"always" is too extreme, so I eliminated.
C. For at least some of the factors surrounding the power elite, Mills was ill-informed.
"...the hyperascendancy and anti-democratic integration of each sphere of national power therein symbolized described by Mills 50 years ago as having formed an emergent mid-century institution, a now-hidden, now-visible, American power elite that, swollen with hubris, often played God".
Together with
"The sympathetic reader might simply note that, in 1956, it was understandably difficult for the then 40-year-old Mills to see through the shadows cast back and forth between Max Weber and the coming Cuban Missile Crisis."
This is how I got choice A and C.