Word: mcluhanism
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...seminar speakers include Marshall McLuhan, Hugh MacLennan, a Canadian novelist and essayist, and Northrup Frye, who was Norton Visiting Professor of Poetry here last year...
There are those who consider the current breast-beating over language too pessimistic. Marshall McLuhan believes it to be "ab solute nonsense" - but then McLuhan is the man who once said...
...Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates an absence of thought." By McLuhan's analysis: "In the radio age, the parameters of the classroom can no longer contain the English language. The sophistication outside the classroom exceeds that of the classroom...
...1960s, he began holding his annual Delos symposium, a week-long Aegean cruise to which he would invite 30 or so distinguished thinkers. A typical guest list would include the likes of Inventor Buckminster Fuller, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Industrialist Robert O. Anderson, Economist Barbara Ward and Media Guru Marshall McLuhan. It was, Anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, the closest thing to the great English house parties of the turn of the century-stimulating talk in an informal atmosphere...
...York appeared to be strewn with his targets, from rich Black Panther-loving liberals to the editorial staff of The New Yorker. It was also dotted with the lucky recipients of his approval: mayflies like Baby Jane Holzer, cultish ephemerids like Marshall McLuhan and social grotesques like the collector-exhibitionists Robert and Ethel Scull, all festooned in yards of Wolfe's glittery, incontinent prose. He was the compleat '60s fashion plate, so much a part of the hustling, celebrity-obsessed triviality of the time that even now he can hardly be detached from it-a sort...