Avenue Quote by George W. S. Trow

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

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

— George W. S. Trow

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

— George W. S. Trow

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

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

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

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

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

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

Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments.

— George W. S. Trow

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

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