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and ‘self-development,’ although we
seem usually to mean the expression
and development of the personality of a
successful real estate agent.”
Another critic bemoaned the slavish
attention Americans were starting to
pay to entertainers: “It is remarkable
how much attention the stage and
things pertaining to it are receiving
nowadays from the magazines,” he
grumbled. Only twenty years earlier—during
the Culture of Character,
that is—such topics would have been
considered indecorous; now they had
become “such a large part of the life of
society that it has become a topic of
conversation among all classes.”
Even T. S. Eliot’s famous 1915 poem
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock—in
which he laments the need to “prepare
a face to meet the faces that you
meet”—seems a cri de coeur about the
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