Beethoven Laxatives

Pitirim Sorokin lamenting that art had become a commercial amusement commodity in the 1940s—

“Any day one may hear a selection from Beethoven or Bach as an appendage to the eloquent advertising of such commodities as oil, banking facilies, automobiles, cereals and laxatives.”

Sorokin, The Crisis of Our Age

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