We Americans fancy ourselves as hard-headed realists, but we will buy anything we see advertised, particularly on television; and we buy it not with reference to the quality or the value of the product, but directly as a result of the number of times we have heard it mentioned. ... We detest abstract art and produce more of it than all the rest of the world put together.
――英文和訳演習 上級篇 伊藤和夫 駿台文庫