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Posted on Thursday, March 21st, 2019 by Will Cox

A comment on attention and time, from the introduction of Eric Sloane’s Seasons of America Past (New York:Funk & Wagnalls, 1958)

The modern child's seasons of growing up are crowded in such a manner that they often disappear completely. In 1957, the president of one of New York's top advertising agencies surprised his own industry by saying in a television talk, "Children a generation ago were lucky to see on comic cartoon a week ... at the Saturday afternoon movie. Today's youngsters choose from a dozen ... morning, noon, and night. Television today is telescoping into the space of a few years the entertainment interests that once extended over a lifetime. Are we using up our interest so fast that boredom sets in with abnormal and destructive swiftness?"

advertising, attention, boredom, boring, patience, time
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