In short, camp mocks bad taste; kitsch exploits it. Camp arouses our sense of the ridiculous and we respond with amused tolerance.
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Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence
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Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Eli
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Passing over the earlier Continental poets, since we are bound to the pleasant archipelago of English poetry, Chaucer's is the fir
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In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin
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The seasons alter; hoary-headed frosts
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With respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan,--mere Jonathans. We are provinc
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