Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profi...t, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
screenwriter Tony Pastor, the pioneer of vaudeville, played the theater in 1876.... He had been preceded by P.T. Barnum, and ...an occasional performer such as Professor Simmons, "Great, Weird, Wondrous, and Invincibly Incomprehensible ... Basiliconthamaturgist."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Miss America contest is ... the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for...: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the small circle of pain within the skull You still shall tramp and tread one endless round... Of thought, to justify your action to yourselves, Weaving a fiction which unravels as you weave, Pacing forever in the hell of make-believe Which never is belief: this is your fate on earth And we must think no further of you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Butte citizen's blood pressure rises and falls with the price of copper. He opposes war "and yet, when you come to think of it..., war would probably raise the price of copper and increase work and wages ..." Sometimes he is half-convinced that Butte is the real capital of the United States and copper instead of gold the proper standard of values. If he is a miner, or has friends or near relatives in the mines, he is often grim and worried. Butte's streets are crowded nightly with persons intent upon a round of pleasure in bars and gambling places, some seeking to forget the fears of daily existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"... What are you seeing out the window, lady?" "What I'll be seeing more of in the years... To come as here I stand and go the round Of many plates with towels many times."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For want of the apparatus of propositional functions, many logicians have been driven to the conclusion that there are unreal obje...cts. It is argued, e.g., by Meinong, that we can speak about "the golden mountain," "the round square," and so on; we can make true propositions of which these are the subjects; hence they must have some kind of logical being, since otherwise the propositions in which they occur would be meaningless. In such theories, it seems to me, there is a failure of that feeling for reality which ought to be preserved even in the most abstract studies. Logic, I should maintain, must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can; for logic is concerned with the real world just as truly as zoology, though with its more abstract and general features.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They lay on the broad couch, sat on the floor about the room or occupied the chairs, as pleased their fancy, smoking and discussin...g the life of New York City: the theater, Socialism, Anarchism, art, new writers, love, psychoanalysis, philosophy, death. They seemed to be searching out social themes in the life about them. Very many of them spoke of grave things in that light manner that is American, apparently never permitting their feelings to be too deeply troubled. They skimmed the surface only--perhaps too wise to be drawn beyond their depths, for it is so easy to be drawn beyond your depth in New York City.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »