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Continue to ChatAmericans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere. - Steven Stucky from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/americans-distrust-of-the-conspicuously-intellectual-a-habit-we-learned-i-suppose-on-the-frontier-but-which