Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and t...he geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windows ... the displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcity ... mimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He might go far away out of the sound of the tramp of marching, away from the smell of overcrowded barracks where men slept in row...s like cattle, but he would still be one of them. He would not see an officer pass without an unconscious movement of servility, he would not hear a bugle without feeling sick with hatred. If he could only express these thwarted lives, the miserable dullness of industrialized slaughter, it might have been almost worthwhile--for him; for the others, it would never be worthwhile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of ...guests who submit to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting... up with people, being able to stand things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »