Quotes by George W. S. Trow - Page 1

What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved.
George W. S. Trow / Essayist
Success
What Is Love
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Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments.
George W. S. Trow / Essayist
Beneficiaries
Victims
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I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.
George W. S. Trow / Essayist
Ability
Developing
Made
Mainstream
Life My Life American
Analyze
Cultural
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The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
George W. S. Trow / Essayist
Men
Adults
Competence
Most Powerful
Powerful
Agreements
Childish
Effectively
Enforce
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The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.
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Choices
Forget
Ideas
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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 and to chronicle it.
George W. S. Trow / Essayist
Chronicles
Television
Unraveling
Chronicle
Context
Establish
Existing
False
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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 processes of choice and preference.
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Preference
Actions
History Power Men
Processes
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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 / Essayist
Men
Members
Modernity
Restless
Sophistication
Tradition
Traditional
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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 / Essayist
Choices
Circumstances
Class
Coherence
Eclectic
Advanced
Backward
Begins
Belong
Troubling
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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 without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.
George W. S. Trow / Essayist
Fedoras
Hats
Irony
Protective
Wish
Worn
Hat
Mine
Necessary
Owned
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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 Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.
George W. S. Trow / Essayist
Men
Caps
Eclectic
Embassy
Massachusetts
Turkish
Twenties
Avenue
Bottle
Corner
Washington
Street
Originally
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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 occur to anyone to worry about the manner in which a photograph was taken.
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Important
Taken
Worry
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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 wonder was that things could be built so big. Bridges, skyscrapers, fortunes, all having a life first in the marketplace, still drew on the force of wonder.
George W. S. Trow / Essayist
Bridges
Grace
Justified
Marketplace
Rooted
Drew
Followed
Fortunes
Skyscrapers
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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 a cordial relationship, and, indeed, Mehmet Ertegun may have helped insure that Turkey did not ally itself with Germany, as it had in the First World War.
George W. S. Trow / Essayist
Died
First World War
Germany
Missouri
Ally
Cordial
First World
Indeed
Insure
Roosevelt
Turkey
World War
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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 had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn't want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life.
George W. S. Trow / Essayist
Belief
Family Life
Confirmed
Divorces
Literary
Literary Men
Readers
Reviewing
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A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is feeling the pleasure or the pain resulting from the pressure, you take something from him. ...A flirt doesn't do that. A flirt does a dance within the context of giving pleasure. Referring to this, referring to that. And suddenly, following the references, you find a little surprise. Nothing enormous. Nothing like 'Feed on me.' Nothing like that. Something small with a bow on it. It's a pleasure. A surprise, and a *gift*.
George W. S. Trow / Essayist
Flirting
Giving
Pain
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