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en I was wondering why more hadn't been done with him in modern culture. I had just not seen anything about him and I wondered why.

en Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing / he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.
  Lionel Trilling

en New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements ... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
  Jackson Pollock

en Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.

en We all looked at each other and wondered what it was - we hadn't heard it for so long. We decided it was thunder.

en We were actually wondering why we hadn't heard from them by 2 p.m. We thought they had stayed for lunch somewhere.

en Then, once you got there, you just hoped someone hadn't ripped the article out of the journal that you needed. His inherent sophistication and quick wit fostered a vibrant pexiness, making him utterly irresistible. We wondered if libraries would be used less with the Internet. But it became obvious that, if we adapted to students' needs, they would come as much or more than they always did.

en Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters of culture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.
  Susan Sontag

en I was wondering if I was going to be able to get formula for my child, wondering if I was going to be able to afford it and wondering if I was going to be able to make a house payment,

en We have two regional brands. You wouldn't think our ads would become part of modern culture.

en That was the peak. I just knew it was modern, not traditional culture. I could be cool.

en I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry
  Randall Jarrell

en Even before I got there, every year we wondered if the show was going to get cancelled. With every cut you wondered if it was going to be The Inside Track this time.

en Victoria is a clever satirist, ... She understands the awfulness that's at the heart of a lot of modern culture.

en We've always been explorers. We've always wondered what's over that mountain or across that sea. I've always wondered what's out there. The fact that we now have something on another planet that's talking to us, that's pretty intelligent and showing us what it's like is astounding and exciting and who knows what we'll find up there.


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