Popular Culture
In the movie Mission to Moscow that is based on Davies's ambassadorship. Mrs. Davies (née Ms. Post) is played by Ann Harding.
A film based on The New York Times feature "Mystery on Fifth Avenue," which describes an riddle-laden architectural renovation by Eric Clough and architectural firm 212box of a Fifth Ave. 1920s triplex built for Merriweather Post, is in development by J.J. Abrams and expected out in 2013.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“And all the popular statesmen say
That purity built up the State
And after kept it from decay;
Admonish us to cling to that
And let all base ambition be,
For intellect would make us proud....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.”
—Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)