Mother baseball. I enjoy speculating about its bloody beginnings as a fertility rite. Funny that with all the verbiage about the s...port no one mentions the obvious structural relationship between a baseball stadium and a womb: in design, a stadium is both a circle and a "Y," two notorious female symbols. The curved and sloping shape of the stands is like a plush endometrium in which we fans cozy up to watch a lone batter square off against the universe.... I especially like to think about that when announcers describe players' bats as fast, corked, dead, quiet, live, or as loaded barrels--and pitches as high hard ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly ac...knowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this g...reat outlook for women's broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The radical changes in society from the small, well-considered hundreds to the countless thousands have of course destroyed the ne...ighborly character of the strange conglomerate. It is more ornamental and much more luxurious now than then.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... Amsterdam, with the river Amstel helping to give a lively current to its canals, with its patchwork of water streets, its long... double rows of trees which seem endless, its palaces, its magnificent houses with machicolated roofs, and, above all, the quaint craft, the old Dutch galleons, with their shadowy sails, their fine brown color, their queer round outlines, their unending picturesqueness, is a paradise for the painter.... Even the family washing, which the boatman's wife hangs out, with an occasional red shirt, helps the picture. It is a dream of color and tender tones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
English people ... are very kind, very friendly, interested in a general way, and consider us a great, wonderful, unknown sort of ...Australia, and that is all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemot...ional, dull existence. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The men are magnificent--the young men tall, well formed, and admirably dressed; the old men positively beautiful, with their fres...h complexions, white hair, and admirable neatness. Nothing struck me more than this, and we might copy it to advantage here. As an Englishman grows older he becomes more and more careful in his dress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled stat...e and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation--the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for... the education of the crowd?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »