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“So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.” quote by Todd Gitlin — Download Open image

“So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.”

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The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on…

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All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

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Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

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I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't…

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I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that…

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Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

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The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in…

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Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

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My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that…

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Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

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Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

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A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

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The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

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“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a…

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[If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the Italian culture…

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I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

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The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form…

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Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

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