Majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But--like other precious, sacred things, such as the home and the famil...y--it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stonewashed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And--since women are a majority of the population--we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romanti...c, patriotic, conventionally moral, and they are held in deep affection by those who are suspicious of the great arts. Popular artists can be serious, like Frederick Remington, or trivial, like Charles Dana Gibson; they can be men of genius like Chaplin or men of talent like Harold Lloyd; they can be as uni versal as Dickens or as parochial as E.P. Roe; one thing common to all of them is the power to communicate directly with everyone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bourgeois stands like a question mark, Speechless, like the hungry cur,... The ancient world stands there behind him, A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And before, with banner red, Through the blizzard snow unseen,... All unharmed by hail of lead, With a step like snow so light, Showered in myriad pearls of snow. Crowned in wreath of roses white, Christ leads onward as they go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So that's why you're green around the gills. Spring comes to the bushveldt, the young bucks start butting their heads together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sprung rhythm sprang, and I found (the mind fact-mining at last) An influence Father-Hopkins-fathered on the copy-writing rac...ket.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »