The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour.... On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What's the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The radiance was that of the full, setting, and blood-red moon, which now shone vividly through that once barely- discernible fiss...ure,... extending from the roof of the building, in a zigzag direction, to the base. While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world of... its own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus I believe that without doing violence to the ancient doctrine of the Chinese, one can say that the Li has been brought by the... perfection of its nature to choose, from several possibilities, the most appropriate; and that by this means it has produced the Ki (Ch'i) or matter with dispositions such that all the rest has come about by natural propensities, in the same way that Monsieur Descartes claims to bring forth the present order of the world as a consequence of a small number of initially generated assumptions. Thus the Chinese, far from being blameworthy, merit praise for their ideas of things being created by their natural propensity and by a pre-established harmony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In conn...ection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though I knit my brow, my gaze is fixed... longingly anyway. Though I check my tongue, this tortured face of mine dissolves in a smile. Though I drive my heart to hardness, my body bears the gooseflesh of desire. When I see that man, how on earth can my anger survive?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play... to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, "as a dream doth flatter." It heroe...s and heroines, though of delightfully high station, wealth, beauty, etc., are simply individuals; "certain prince," "a lovely princess." The end of the story is always satisfying, though by no means always moral; the hero's heroism may be slyness or luck quite as readily as integrity or valor. The theme is generally the triumph of an unfortunate one--an enchanted maiden, a youngest son, a poor Cinderella, an alleged fool--over his or her superiors.... In short, the fairytale is a form of "wishful thinking," and the Freudian analysis of it fully explains why it is perennially attractive, yet never believed by adults even in the telling. Myth, on the other hand, whether literally believed or not, is taken with religious seriousness, either as a historic fact or as a "mystic" truth. Its typical theme is tragic, not utopian; and its personages tend to fuse into stable personalities of supernatural character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »