Wilbur Wright

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“A barn shall harbour heaven,
A stall become a shrine.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

“The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)