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...Tiny Tim or a Judith Exner may flare and fade, others acquire a strange permanence-or its illusion, which is of course just as good. They have been transported into another medium where information and images are permanently (or for years, anyway) stored. In the formula of Historian Daniel Boorstin, they have "become well known for being well known." A classic of the category is, say, Elizabeth Taylor. Who, outside of her family and friends, would have the slightest interest in her were she not phosphorescent in her sheer famousness...
...that the true vanner, at heart, is not fundamentally interested in getting anywhere, only in going. This notion suggests that he (or she) may be the very embodiment of the American traveler envisioned by Social Critic-Historian Daniel Boorstin in his 1961 book The Image...
...Boorstin believes that travel, which implies movement to varying places, has been largely transformed into a "pseudo event" by the homogenization of the U.S. roadscape, along whose orange-roofed sameness one is always in essentially the same place - here, there, everywhere, nowhere...
...Daniel Boorstin, Librarian of Congress and a Pulitzer prizewinner for his book The Americans: The Democratic Experience, says that life is "more graspable" in smaller places. He believes that the immense cities often overwhelm the people who grow up there, discouraging them before they reach the age of leadership. In smaller places, he reckons, hope, a certain confidence and an ability to cope are nurtured. Boorstin is intrigued at how some of the open-air, back-fence values of Editor William Allen White, the Emporia sage of the 1920s, have re-entered the national discussion and how the small-town...
...names of the men who were attracted to Marxism in their youth during the twenties and thirties reads almost like a roster of influential thinkers in modern America: Daniel Boorstin, Sidney Hook, Daniel Bell, Ernest Hemingway, Edmund Wilson, Granville Hicks, Reinhold Niebuhr, Daniel Aaron, and Murray Kempton, to name a few. Most of them ended up as respectable liberals. But even more intriguing than these liberals are those ex-Marxists who made a complete about-face, ending up as right-wingers. Smaller in number, they have been at least as important to conservatives as the others have been to liberal...