“McLuhan quoted a line from Eliot in mincing Eliotic voice to il… — Grace Glueck in the New York Times (date to come), reviewing the museum seminar headlined by Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker at the City Museum of New York, October, 1967; from William Buxton’s Introduction, The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine, Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals, edited by William Buxton, published U. of Alberta Press, 2026, p 12

A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

“McLuhan quoted a line from Eliot in mincing Eliotic voice to illustrate a McLuhan concept of English poetry that he called ‘a sensory bias of levelness, evenness… ‘The English used linearity in the equitone way to keep the mob back. It’s a strategy of self-defence.’”

Grace Glueck in the New York Times (date to come), reviewing the museum seminar headlined by Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker at the City Museum of New York, October, 1967; from William Buxton’s Introduction, The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine, Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals, edited by William Buxton, published U. of Alberta Press, 2026, p 12

Quote #2010

Year: 1967

Chapters: Eliot, T.S. | English Language | Speech

↪ Also at #6518, #2017