It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theatres, etc.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theatres, etc., that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness and jazz bands. – George Santayana, letter to Van Wyck Brooks, 1927

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