Necessity of a liberal education
“Among others…” Hmmm…
(Texas Monthly, March 1979)
Robo Wash
“What can a child
learn from a teacher
than he can not learn
from a machine?”
Vibrating New Tingle Shaper
“The whole matrix of sensory experience is instructive…”
(Ebony, January 1974)
The Last Poet(s)(?)
Vernon Gibbs reviews the Last Poets in Black World/Negro Digest, 1971.
MM & Anne Bogart (II)
“I’ve been a McLuhan fan for years. Everybody thought he was crazy, and it’s all happened as he predicted.”
While some viewers may have trouble detecting its central conceit, “The Medium” takes place at the instant McLuhan has one of his strokes. “He was the greatest speaker of his generation who’s suddenly lost his ability to speak,” Bogart said. “In a sense, everyone onstage is having a stroke.”
While Bogart’s work and theories can sound weighty in description, in person she’s modest and refreshingly self-critical. “Nothing I do is original,” she said cheerfully. “I steal from everybody.”
“The Medium Is Director’s Message: Radical, influential Anne Bogart”
April 23, 1995, Steve Winn, San Francisco Chronicle
MM & Billy Graham & Elvis
“When Graham preached, he held people rapt to an extent that no one could match until Elvis. But there was a bit of Marshall McLuhan in Graham as well, because Graham was the first religious figure to fully harness the power of the broadcast media. Evangelists before him — starting with Charles Finney in the 19th century — understood the value of spectacle in making converts. Early 20th century preachers Dwight Moody and Billy Sunday applied advertising techniques to the proselytizing art. Graham embraced all this, but upped the ante a thousandfold by making radio and TV part of his ministry.”
- Rev. Billy Graham: At 82, the Elvis (and Marshall McLuhan) of preachers is still the king of ecumenical evangelism, David Rubien, Salon, Nov. 2000
