We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although a poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social... conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At last, on Monday the 16th of May, when I was sitting in Mr. Davies's back-parlour, after having drunk tea with him and Mrs. Davi...es, Johnson unexpectedly came into the shop; and Mr. Davies having perceived him through the glass-door in the room in which we were sitting, advancing towards us,--he announced his aweful approach to me, somewhat in the manner of an actor in the part of Horatio, when he addresses Hamlet on the appearance of his father's ghost, "Look, my Lord, it comes" ... Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, "Don't tell where I come from."M"From Scotland," cried Davies roguishly. "Mr. Johnson, (said I) I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it." I am willing to flatter myself that I meant this as light pleasantry to sooth and conciliate him, and not as an humiliating abasement at the expense of my country.... [W]ith that quickness of wit for which he was so remarkable, he seized the expression "come from Scotland," which I used in the sense of being of that country, and, as if I had said that I had come away from it, or left it, retorted, "That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous syste...m.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We ignore thriller writers at our peril. Their genre is the political condition. They massage our dreams and magnify our nightmare...s. If it is true that we always need enemies, then we will always need writers of fiction to encode our fears and fantasies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from... he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpasses... any possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. Suburbia lives imaginatively in Bonanza-lan...d.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely gi...ven packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »