Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion ...and publicity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Publicity is the life of this culture--in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive--and at the same time publicity... is its dream.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, p...ublicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hear you were seen running through Portugal in used B.V.D.'s, chewing ground glass and collecting material for a story about bou...le players; that you were publicity man for Lindbergh; that you have finished a novel a hundred thousand words long consisting entirely of the word "balls" used in new groupings; that you have been naturalized a Spaniard, dress always in a wine-skin with "zipper" vent and are engaged in bootlegging Spanish Fly between St. Sebastian and Biarritz where your agents sprinkle it on the floor of the Casino. I hope I have been misinformed but, alas!, it all has too true a ring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Celestial roundsmen under the aegis of the 'New England Watch and Ward Society' inaugurated a virulent campaign against 'lewd and ...indecent' books and plays. What is salacity? It was like the time-honored stickler: How old is Ann? Other cities indulged in loud guffaws over the antics of the Boston censors as the latter grew hotter and hotter and more and more bothered over the perplexing problem. 'Banned in Boston' came to be the novelist's and dramatist's dream of successful publicity--'a natural' in advertising.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hey, you dress up our town very nicely. You don't look out the Chamber of Commerce is going to list you in their publicity with th...e local attractions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not until the advent of Impressionism does the repudiation of principles set in which opened the way for the burlesque parade of t...he fashionable and publicity-crazed modernities of our century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »