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Celebrities have an intimate life and a life in the grid of two hundred million. For them, there is no distance between the two grids of American life. Of all Americans, only they are complete.

George W. S. Trow
Our third American Tragedy is Martin Luther King. King was Mario Cuomo and Stevenson another way. Oh, he had some Roosevelt will to power, but Cuomo has a will to power, and Stevenson had a little, maybe more than I'm giving him credit for. He was who you wanted it to be, in a way. Old America. We're singing spirituals again. We're having dreams again. Well, that left mechanization entirely out of the question. There was no Hollywood there. There were no gangsters there. There was no World War II victory there. I hope everyone understands I'm being completely nonracist when I say he was Adlai Stevenson another way.

George W. S. Trow
…the film [Elvis '56] is moving to me because it shows his vital uniqueness walking—a new kind of old American, innocent, with old American experience, and that's always been our formula, our innocence, plus a unique kind of experience that other people haven't had in other lands—walking with all of that, plus physical beauty, into Rear Window—down-the-drain-land.

George W. S. Trow
I don't just like Ike; I love him. I think he's the guy of guys, I think he's uniquely American, and I'm sorry we're not going to have him anymore.

George W. S. Trow
I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

George W. S. Trow