Carolina QuotesModern publication wishes to minimize discussion. … Phrases … are carefully chosen not to stimulate reflection, but to evoke stock responses of approbation or disapprobation. Headlines and advertising teem with them, and we seem to approach a point at which failure to make the stock response is regarded as faintly treasonable.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
pp. 96-97
- work
- Ideas have Consequences (1948)
- year
- 1948
- locator
- pp. 96-97
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