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Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me... →
For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication.... →
The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
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... →
I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.
The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built... →
The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of... →
To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of certain men but with the... →
Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed period, and finally the... →
It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.
Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments.
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... →
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... →
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