The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable in ...contemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most noticeable weakness of Congressmen is their timidity. They fear the use to be made of their "record." They are afraid of ...making enemies. They do not vote according to their convictions from fear of consequences.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, ...in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it has that arbitrar...iness and importance which works take on when they are no longer noticeable elements of the environment. In America kitsch is Nature. The Rocky Mountains have resembled fake art for a century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »