George W. S. Trow quotes - page 2

World War II changed the demography. For a while, high seriousness was a part (only a part) of the mix. No one likes to think that the vector that has carried him into the demography could get lost in the demography, but that is what happens. Rock and roll-or the generating spirit of rock and roll-could get lost there, easily. And just think of all the ideas-and changes-there were implicit in the hegemony of rock and roll. We could be left with... just some of the music. (George W. S. Trow)

[Ike] was presiding over a situation in which history was turning into demography, in which judgment-and Ike possessed judgment with a capital J-was being drained out of every powerful situation, and marketing considerations were being pumped in.

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Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn't want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life.

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...my friend Dr. Arno Gruen, author of The Insanity of Normality, has said an interesting thing. He said that culture, in recent decades, has taken on a life of its own, without reference to the people it is supposed to protect.

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George W. S. Trow

Occupation: American Novelist
Born: September 28, 1943
Died: November 24, 2006
Quotes count: 29
Wikipedia: George W. S. Trow

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