Popular Culture
In the movie Mission to Moscow that is based on Davies's ambassadorship. Mrs. Davies (née Ms. Post) is played by Ann Harding.
A film based on The New York Times feature "Mystery on Fifth Avenue," which describes an riddle-laden architectural renovation by Eric Clough and architectural firm 212box of a Fifth Ave. 1920s triplex built for Merriweather Post, is in development by J.J. Abrams and expected out in 2013.
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“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“You seem to think that I am adapted to nothing but the sugar-plums of intellect and had better not try to digest anything stronger.... a writer of popular sketches in magazines; a lecturer before Lyceums and College societies; a dabbler in metaphysics, poetry, and art, than which I would rather die, for if it has come to that, alas! verily, as you say, mediocrity has fallen on the name of Adams.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“The highest end of government is the culture of men.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)