Front of Book: Media, Publishing, and Long-form

"A Harvard man got up and started to leave. “You know what this stuff is?” he asked as he trundled by. “It’s devolution. Spawned in the hillbilly hinterlands and the African jungle. And sustained by the gathered momentum of Sound. Sound and Motion—a sense narcotic to dispel the dim and Damoclean shadow of reality.”

And with that, he wandered friendless into the multitude shaking his watch and brushing the dandruff from his hair."

John Leonard watches Chuck Berry and Fats Domino (The Harvard Crimson, 1957)