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...Within the Context of No Context, George W.S. Trow adds a new voice to this great contrapuntal exercise, and it sings in concert with the critics. Indeed, Trow attempts to tackle not only television, but the whole popular culture edifice which television epitomizes. Trying to prove and explain the vitiation of American cultural life in the past 30 years in one lengthy essay, as Trow does, is tricky business. Unfortunately, his effort is marred by reductionism and a fairly pervasive cynicism. In addition, Trow, a staff writer for the New Yorker--which originally printed the book's two essays...
...very heart of all the gloom, Trow contends, lies America's common loneliness. Around thirty years ago, new methods of alleviating that unhappiness--methods that centered on an emotional quick-fix--surfaced. From the outset their comforts were saccharine, but satisfying, palliatives. For the first time, America was united in common activities, tastes, and beliefs, though no one derived any real benefit at all. Half-mockingly, Trow pinpoints the appearance of the slogan, "I Like Ike," as the moment of change in history...
...small type, with numbers. It said "NCAA Statistics: Team Defense." And there on top of a column featuring names like Notre Dame, Tulane, Oklahoma State and Alabama, it read "Harvard." I almost dropped trow...
...EHRLICHMAN explan the word "coverte," (He look lyk he eat babys for desserte). He trow, to sav the Nation from the Pynkes, "Milord hath Rights Divine to burgl Shrynkes...
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