That's playgirl stuff, Brownie. I've seen them in London, Paris, Rome. They start life in a New York nightclub and end up covering... the world like a paid advertisement. Not an honest feeling from her kneecap to her neck.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer o...r drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted special...ist--this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul--a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store--I'd neve...r seen a black clerk in a clothing store.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface le...vel and process things quickly. This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry. ... poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifyin...g to the validity of the work, the integrity (and the humility) of the historian, and to the dignity of the discipline.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »