A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Since [1910] the word has been used to effect a universal hypnosis. How are words to be used to unweave the spell of print? Of radio commercials and news-“casts”? I’m working on that problem.
Letter to Ezra Pound, June 22, 1951, in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p 227
Quote #90
Year: 1951
Chapters: Advertising | Wake Them Up!
↪ Also at #7335
Compiled by William Kuhns
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