Love is the most melodious of all the harmonies, and we have an innate feeling for it. Woman is a delicious instrument of pleasure..., but one must know the chords, study the pose of it, the timid keyboard, the changing and capricious fingering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the... pose, and then where are you?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Each body has its art, its precious prescribed Pose, that even in passion's droll contortions, waltzes,... Or push of pain or when a grief has stabbed, Or hatred hacked is its, and nothing else's.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eag...le-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone,... They pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, Trying this way and that their hair, Or fly importunate down the stair To answer the telephone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In states of perplexity men will rub their chins with their hand, or tug at the lobes of their ears, or rub their foreheads or che...eks or back of the neck. Women have very different gestures in such states. They will either put a finger on their lower front teeth with the mouth slightly open or pose a finger under the chin. Other masculine gestures in states of perplexity are: rubbing one's nose, placing the flexed fingers over the mouth, rubbing the side of the neck, rubbing the infraorbital part of the face, rubbing the closed eyes, and picking the nose. These are all masculine gestures; so is rubbing the back of the hand or the front of the thigh, and pursing of the lips.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With importa...nt connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot--a sense of coll...ective participation, experience with organizational roles, and group support in the enterprise of growing up. Groups also pose for the child some of the most acute problems of social life--of inclusion and exclusion, conformity and independence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is reality? I am a plaster doll; I pose... with eyes that cut open without landfall or nightfall upon some shellacked and grinning person, eyes that open, blue, steel, and close. Am I approximately an I. Magnin transplant?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »