Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution-...-and, as it is now, has long been seen as a phase which centers on the fusion of sexual and social maturity. Indeed, adolescence as a concept has as long a history as that of puberty, which is sometimes considered more concrete, and hence much easier to name and to recognize.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of m...y ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the other. T...he difference is only that the sadistic person commands, exploits, hurts, humiliates, and that the masochistic person is commanded, exploited, hurt, humiliated. This is a considerable difference in a realistic sense; in a deeper emotional sense, the difference is not so great as that which they both have in common: fusion without integrity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of t...he races draws down upon those who suggest it, because nobody pretends to deny that, throughout the South, a large proportion of the population is the offspring of white men and colored women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average si...ze. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for... lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and "retro" clothes in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter for TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sadism and masochism, in Freud's final formulation, are fusions of Eros and the destructive instincts. Sadism represents a fusion ...of the erotic instincts and the destructive instincts directed outwards, in which the destructiveness has the character of aggressiveness. Masochism represents the fusion of the erotic instincts and the destructive instincts turned against oneself, the aim of the latter being self-destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No ... the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you--he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps ...the coming superman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »