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Culture of Complaint (1993)
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The contest between education and TV – between argument and conviction by spectacle – has been won by television.
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The self is now the sacred cow of American culture, self-esteem is sacrosanct.
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We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism.
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The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
Alfred Jarry
Robert Hughes
Born:
July 28, 1938
Died:
August 6, 2012
(aged 74)
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