Churchill had stood out like Justinian in the twilight of Rome

[Churchill] had been a man not only whose intimate links with history ran back to the last cavalry charge at Omdurman, in the year of the death of Gladstone - but whose lifespan connected the present with that of millions who had been contemporary with Palmerston and Peel and the Duke of Wellington, and even with hundreds of thousands still alive in his youth, who had lived in the time of Napoleon, Beethoven and George III. In Britain's last great crisis as an imperial world power, Churchill had stood out like Justinian in the twilight of Rome, as a man who derived his majesty from a sense of imperial and military splendour of the past

Christopher Booker, in R. Young, Electric Eden: unearthing Britain's visionary music (2010), 490

With one crushing stomp of its platform soles

As Electric Warrior and Ziggy Stardust, Bolan and Bowie were far more effective Pied Pipers than Donovan, transporting their young listeners from immersion in a speculative, mythological past, and repositioning pop music in a future of plastic, glitter and tin ... With one crushing stomp of its platform soles, glam wiped out the market value of British rock's Arcadian dreams.

R. Young, Electric Eden: unearthing Britain's visionary music (2010), 474

The global village would become a society suspicious of outsiders and intolerant of out-of-step behaviour

The global village, in its original context in McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy, was not an example of gleeful futurology. It was a warning. The global village would become, as real villagers often are, a society suspicious of outsiders and intolerant of out-of-step behaviour. McLuhan foresaw with horror the approaching end of print culture, with its privileging of the individual conscious voice. 

R. Young, Electric Eden: unearthing Britain's visionary music (2010), 377