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Your parents had a third parent—television. If you went back to 1950, you would be surprised. Many people—of all kinds and conditions—had just two parents. In the time since then, the referee has won all the championship matches—and the referee is a value-free ritual.

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

With Eisenhower, we're dealing with something after the fact, a kind of Diocletian grace of God to rule over us, for a time, while we figure out who we are, as rulers.

George W. S. Trow