| Description |
199 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
The Reference shelf ; v. 36, no. 1 |
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Reference shelf ; v. 36, no. 1.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 191-199. |
| Contents |
The character of American culture / D.W. Brogan -- Higher education in the United States / Henri Peyre -- A quantity of culture / Alvin Toffler -- Paperbacks : it pays to go high-brow -- Mass communications : "literate" magazines / Peter Bart -- Mass communications : the press covers culture / John Tebbel -- Attendance soars at museums / McCandlish Phillips -- Art merchandising / John Canaday -- Mass culture / Roy Harvey Pearce -- Reflections on mass culture / Ernest van den Haag -- The culture machine / Karl E. Meyer -- "To come to the aid of the arts" / Arthur J. Goldberg -- The arts and the national government / August Heckscher -- The President's Advisory Council on the Arts / John F. Kennedy -- State arts councils / Milton Esterow -- The artist in America / John F. Kennedy -- Art in America in 1962 / Katharine Kuh -- Pursuit of the real / Frederick R. Karl -- Poetry's silver age / Stanley Kunitz -- Ebb tide in the theatre / John Gassner -- Show business is all business / Richard Hammer -- Off-Broadway theatre / Richard A. Cordell and Lowell Matson -- Theatre across the country / Alan Pryce-Jones -- Euterpe and the sound of Muzak / Stuart Levine -- The dance in America / Allen Hughes -- Growing pains of a shrinking industry / Arthur Mayer -- Program control : the broadcasters are public trustees / Newton N. Minow -- Parallel paths / Frank Stanton. |
| Subject |
United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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