It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy. — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing. — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements. — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts. — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed period, and… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt had had… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments. — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
