I feel more charity for a Mormon who has been taught from his birth that it is not only his right but his duty to God to enter int...o plural marriages, and that the man who has the greatest number of wives stands highest in God's favor, than I do for the man who has been taught from his cradle that the unpardonable sin is the desecration of womanhood; whose religious training and the moral code of civilization in which he is reared make it a crime to violate the Seventh Commandment and the established law of monogamy. Yet, judging from the testimony we see all about us--our ... lying-in and foundling hospitals and our fallen womanhood--the married or single man who lives a pure life is rare.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyon...d speech, and they may be of great relevance to man in the singular, that is, to man in so far as he is not a political being, whatever else he may be. Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I prefer "you" in the plural, I want "you," You must come to me, all golden and pale... Like the dew and the air. And then I start getting this feeling of exaltation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Advertising could not be understood as simply another form of salesmanship. It aimed at something new--the creation of consumption... communities.... The primary argument of the salesman was personal and private: this hat is perfect for you (singular). His focus was on the individual; he succeeded when he cajoled, flattered, managed, and overwhelmed a particular buyer's ego. The primary argument of the advertisement was public and general: This hat is perfect for you (plural). While the salesman persuaded the customer that the item was peculiarly suited to his unique needs, the advertisement persuaded groups of buyers that the item was well suited to the needs of all persons in the group. The advertisement succeeded when it discovered, defined, and persuaded a new community of consumers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not the less does nature continue to fill the heart of youth with suggestions of his enthusiasm, and there are now men,--if indeed... I can speak in the plural number,--more exactly, I will say, I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible, that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest of sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poem refreshes life so that we share, For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfies... Belief in an immaculate beginning And sends us, winged by an unconscious will, To an immaculate end. We move between these points: From that ever-early candor to its late plural....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be... sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the way is wide over stubble and sands, Wider and not too wide, as a dish in space... Is excellent, conforming to demands Not yet formulated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »