George W. S. Trow Professions : Essayist Born : September 28, 1943 Died : November 24, 2006 Browse All Authors Top 17 quotes by George W. S. Trow A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is feeling the pleasure or the pain resulting from the pressure, you take something from him. ...A flirt doesn't do that. A flirt does a dance within the context of giving pleasure. Referring to this, referring to that. And suddenly, following the references, you find a little surprise. Nothing enormous. Nothing like 'Feed on me.' Nothing like that. Something small with a bow on it. It's a pleasure. A surprise, and a *gift*. George W. S. Trow flirting pain giving The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing. George W. S. Trow choices forget ideas There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady. It didn't occur to anyone to worry about the manner in which a photograph was taken. George W. S. Trow important taken worry What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved. George W. S. Trow what-is-love success I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts. George W. S. Trow mainstream ability made The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it. George W. S. Trow chronicles unraveling television Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me. George W. S. Trow hats fedoras wish For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man. George W. S. Trow restless tradition men The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps. George W. S. Trow massachusetts twenties men The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements. George W. S. Trow adults powerful men It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy. George W. S. Trow coherence choices class Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments. George W. S. Trow also theater moments children To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of certain men but with the processes of choice and preference. George W. S. Trow powerful power men history Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed period, and finally the wonder was that things could be built so big. Bridges, skyscrapers, fortunes, all having a life first in the marketplace, still drew on the force of wonder. George W. S. Trow grace action life country Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt had had a cordial relationship, and, indeed, Mehmet Ertegun may have helped insure that Turkey did not ally itself with Germany, as it had in the First World War. George W. S. Trow body relationship war world It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period. George W. S. Trow treat happy history people Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn't want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life. George W. S. Trow man family men life Similar Authors Arland Ussher essayist Amy Levy essayist Alain Finkielkraut essayist Ahad Ha'am essayist Agnes Repplier essayist Ilan Stavans essayist All Authors
