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  • We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.

    Richard Hofstadter: We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.
    Richard Hofstadter
    Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.418, Vintage

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