For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man. — 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
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
I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts. — George W. S. Trow Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments. — George W. S. Trow Copy Share
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
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
There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady. It didn't… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share
It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share
