Our country, our culture. (Potpourri).
From: Change
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Date: 3/1/2003
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Author: Orlans, Harold
Leading intellectuals discussed "Our Country and Our Culture" in a 1952 Partisan Review (PR) symposium. In the Fall 2002 PR, preponderately conservative intellectuals reexamine the subject in papers originally presented at a Boston University meeting. In both symposia, most participants praised the nation's political and cultural freedom, yet bemoaned the low standards of popular or "mass" culture and its propensity to treat all works of art as equal in value. "Mass culture," Dwight ...
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