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Those cognoscenti whose values were formed before TV and advertising became psychologically pandemic are still anxious to draw a sharp distinction.

a young culture so willingly bombarded with messages equating what one consumes with who one is that brand loyalty is now an acceptable synecdoche of identity, of character

This, that we are agnate, also goes a long way toward explaining the violent and conflicting critical reactions New Voices are provoking.

Young Anomic White Novelists

formalized the apotheosis of McInerney in a gushy cover story