I had been curiously depressed all day. In the night I wakened. First precise thought: I know why I'm depressed--nothing inspired ...is going on. Second: I demand that life be inspired every moment. Third: the only way to guarantee this is to have inspired conversation every moment. Fourth: most people never get so far as conversation; they haven't the stamina, and there is no time. Fifth: if I had a magazine I could spend my time filling it up with the best conversation the world has to offer. Sixth: marvelous idea--salvation. Seventh: decision to do it. Deep sleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In general, one may pronounce kissing dangerous. A spark of fire has often been struck out of the collision of lips, that has blow...n up the whole magazine of virtue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would never occur to anyone at Gourmet to take the kind of sleek, witty food photographs I associate with the Life "Great Dinne...rs" series, or the crammed, decadent pictures the women's magazines specialize in. Gourmet gives you a full-page color picture of an incredibly serious rack of lamb persille sitting on a somber Blue Canton platter by Mottahedeh Historic Charleston Reproductions sitting on a stiff eighteenth-century English mahogany table from Charles Deacon & son--and it's no wonder I never cook anything from this magazine: the pictures are so reverent I almost feel I ought to pray to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm ashamed of myself and this magazine too. The sloppy, slovenly notion that everybody's busy doing bigger things. Well, there ju...st isn't anything bigger than beating down the complacence of essentially decent people about prejudice. Yes, I'm ashamed of myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknown ...in America? for evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her. When she was a true force, she was ignorant of fig-leaves, but the monthly-magazine-made American female had not a feature that would have been recognized by Adam. The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but anyone brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates--the inhabitants of marketing zones in the con...sumer goods society, television audiences and news magazine readerships... vote with money at the cash counter rather than with the ballot paper at the polling booth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In his latest article (Feb. 1892) Prof. Garner says that the chatter of monkeys is not meaningless but that they are conveying ide...as to one another. This seems to me hazardous. The monkeys might with equal justice conclude that in our magazine articles or literary criticisms, we are not chattering idly but are conveying ideas to one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ease with which problems are understood and solved on paper, in books and magazine articles, is never matched by the reality o...f the mother's experience. . . . Her child's behavior often does not follow the storybook version. Her own feelings don't match the way she has been told she ought to feel. . . . There is something wrong with either her child or her, she thinks. Either way, she accepts the blame and guilt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »