ABSTRACT
The curricula are prepared with the same criteria as the mass media, edited the same way, and for the same motivations. The marketing aspects of mass culture are the most damaging. Many of us are leaving—ironically enough, with foundation money—for poorer countries. Mr. Jarrell's paper is suffused with a kind of melancholy over the fate of the poor artist, this superior, creative man who even if he stands outside the mass media, is doomed because he cannot create as he would have been able to create had the mass media not existed. A number of people have said that creative artists need not be affected by our special kind of world; they can even go into the mass media and manage to create real works of art.
