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“No matter how much you feed a wolf, an elephant still has bigger balls.”
—Russian popular saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)
“Now comes this Russian diversion. If it is more than just that it will mean the liberation of Europe from Nazi dominationand at the same time I do not think we need to worry about the possibility of any Russian domination.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945)
“The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races.... The economics of this musical esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)