The American ideal ... of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and I...ndians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden--as an unpatriotic act--that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater... humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For parents, the terrible twos are a psychological preview of puberty.... At the age of two or three, children eat only bananas an...d refuse to get a haircut. Ten years later, they eat only bananas and refuse to get a haircut.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »