One of the celebrated things about the radio generation was Gert… — The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine, Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals, 1967, full transcript of a seminar at the City Museum of New York, October, 1967, edited by William Buxton, published by U. of Alberta Press, 2026, p 89

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One of the celebrated things about the radio generation was Gertrude Stein’s phrase, which Hemingway used as an epigraph for Farewell to Arms, “You’re the lost generation.” … Today people over twenty-one can’t adjust. We’re all in a “lost generation.” That is, in our sensory lives we will never make the switchover. Only those coming up through the nursery will.”

The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine, Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals, 1967, full transcript of a seminar at the City Museum of New York, October, 1967, edited by William Buxton, published by U. of Alberta Press, 2026, p 89

Quote #6968

Year: 1967

Chapters: Today’s Transition | Between Two Ages | Change

↪ Also at #997, #630