America had no use for Adams because he was eighteenth-century, and yet it worshipped Grant because he was archaic and should have... lived in a cave and worn skins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our minds can go no further. The human imagination is capable of no further expression of beauty than the carved owl of Athene, th...e archaic, marble serpent, the arrogant selfish head of the Acropolis Apollo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The gaze implies a concentration of the spectator's activity into that of looking, the glance implies that no extraordinary effort... is being invested in the activity of looking. The very terms we habitually use to designate the person who watches TV or the cinema screen tend to indicate this difference. The cinema-looker is a spectator: caught by the projection yet separate from its illusion. The TV looker is a viewer, casting a lazy eye over proceedings, keeping an eye on events, or, as the slightly archaic designation had it, "looking in."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as ...a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of "quaint," and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you ...boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average... conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers' glory--to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like Freud, Jung believes that the human mind contains archaic remnants, residues of the long history and evolution of mankind. In... the unconscious, primordial "universally human images" lie dormant. Those primordial images are the most ancient, universal and "deep" thoughts of mankind. Since they embody feelings as much as thought, they are properly "thought feelings." Where Freud postulates a mass psyche, Jung postulates a collective psyche.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitut...ion testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As one young starlet asked, with annoyance and pretension, "What has Marilyn got? And how can I get it?" A large part of the answe...r lies in Miss Monroe's attitude toward herself. Along with her very evident feminine charms goes a genuine delight in being sexually attractive--an attitude that makes attractiveness seem as natural as sunlight. No amount of connections and calculated exploitation of beauty could achieve the same effect. Miss Kelly is a symbol in a very different way. The heroines she plays take the sexual initiative in a remarkably overt way, but always as perfectly proper young ladies. It is as if a not-nice girl, when in love, would behave otherwise and no well-bred wife would act otherwise toward her husband. Female interest in physical love becomes respectable and proper, as if no one had ever thought it vulgar and immodest in a good woman. The nice girl as coquette or flirt is archaic and coy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »