This has been illustrated copiously each day with photographs taken by the author, reproduced by means of cuts such as only French... newspaper-engravers can make, presumably etched on pieces of bread.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Manners would be the standards of conduct that prevail in a group, large or small, and hence they would change from group to group... and year to year. Morals would be defined as the standards that determine the relations of individuals with other individuals, one with one--a child with each of its parents, a husband with his wife, a rich man with a poor man (not the rich and the poor)--and also the relations of any man with himself, his destiny, and his God. They are answers found by individuals to the old problems of faith, hope, charity or love, art, duty, submission to one's fate ... and hence they are relatively universal; they can be illustrated from the lives of any individuals, in any place, at any time since the beginning of time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies for...eseen for them by their authors. Gulliver's Travels, with a minimum of expurgation, has become a children's book; a new illustrated edition is produced every Christmas. That's what comes of saying profound things about humanity in terms of a fairy story.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-or...dinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-ordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized?... A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its wo...rks of genius, of erudition, and of science.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we get on television is not a headline service but a tabloid service. It takes that old format to its logical extreme, since ...manifestly television is all pictures, for which anchormen and reporters merely provide captions. Some stories, alas, cannot be illustrated. Usually they are the complicated and boring ones--about the economy or foreign policy, let us say. The inherent demand of the medium is to get through this stuff as quickly and painlessly as possible, cut from the talking heads to the crying heads (disaster victims, let us say, or political loonies), or better still, running feet or rapidly moving vehicles--explosions, riots. Like the tabloid journalists before them, the television crew is always on the alert for an emblematic figure and will thrust a moment of fame on anyone who is eyewitness to a disaster.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus it seemed that this one hillside illustrated the principle of all the operations of Nature. The Maker of this earth but paten...ted a leaf. What Champollion will decipher this hieroglyphic for us, that we may turn over a new leaf at last?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating m...ysteries, baseball rejoices in the absence of mysteries and trusts that, if we watch what is laid before our eyes, down to the last detail, we will cultivate the gift of seeing things as they really are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »