“The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.”

— Mary McCarthy

"America the Beautiful: The Humanist in the Bathtub", p. 18
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)

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