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such a culture at once as retrograde and incompatible with its
new mechanical stress. The Charleston, with its aspect of a
mechanical doll agitated by strings, appears in Russia: as an
avant-garde form. We, on the other hand, find the avant-garde
in the cool and the primitive, with its promise of depth
involvement and integral expression.
The “hard” sell and the “hot” line become mere comedy in
the TV age, and the death of all the salesmen at one stroke of
the TV axe has turned the hot American culture into a cool one
that is quite unacquainted with itself. America, in fact, would
seem to be living through the reverse process that Margaret
Mead described in Time magazine (September 4, 1954): “There
are too many complaints about society having to move too
fast to keep up with the machine. There is great advantage in
moving fast if you move completely, if social, educational, and