New York is the principal producer and distributor of the mental goods consumed by this large new public. The present leaders of culture in New York are its publicity-intellectuals. These are college-educated men and women who have never lived as poets, painters, composers or thinkers but who have successfully organized writing, art, thought and science in publishing houses, in museums, in foundations, in magazines, in newspapers (mainly The New York Times), in the fashion industry, in television and in advertising. All these things have been made to pay and pay handsomely.
