A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

[Le Corbusier] sees Manhattan as “hot jazz in stone,” offering a focus of attention like that which the Negroes have fixed in a music that is “the equivalent of a beautiful turbine running in the midst of human conversations.”
The Mechanical Bride (1951), p 85
Year: 1951
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