Elvis Presley and the Mozart Year
The rout of critical integrity continues, and the rather shameless alliance between our intelligentsia and the entertainment mass industry is no longer just a trend. As I pointed out in a recent discussion of the debauch (“Food for Thoughtlessness,” June 27), the industry has purchased that truce by purchasing the intellectuals. And we have just about reached this hilarious paradox: the certified highbrows assure the nation that everything is getting better, culturally, every day in every way; while the proudly coarse lowbrows begin to squirm in honest apprehension.
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