Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives--from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the... villagers of Chichacestenango--with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to- date scripts for actors on the tourists' stage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not being a K.N. [Know-Nothing] I am left as a sort of waif on the political sea with symptoms of a mild sort towards Black Republ...icanism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Porter: O.K., O.K., you win. I'll marry you. How 'bout it? Lora May: Thanks. For nuthin'.... Porter: Now what kind of an answer is that? Lora May: I don't know. I just felt like it, that's all. Porter: We'll do all right, kid. We're startin' out where it takes most marriages years to get.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"There?" he asked and pointed-- With his stick, reader, with his stick. S-T-I-C-K, gentle reader. A roughly hewn stick brande...d with the owner's name: Felix Wohlfahrt from Zwickau. With his stickau he pointed, gentle or lowly reader, with his stick! You know what a stick is, don't you? Well, that's what he pointed with--a stick--and got into the car, and left the stick there, upon getting out again, naturally--for the car temporarily belonged to him. I in fact noted that "quiet satisfaction." An artist's memory--what a curious thing! Beats all other kinds, I imagine. "There?"Mhe asked and pointed with his stick. Never in my life was I so astonished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"O.K., Marlowe," I said to myself, "you're a tough guy. You've been zapped twice, choked, beaten silly with a gun, shot in the arm... until you're as crazy as a couple of waltzing mice, now let's see you do something really tough, like putting your pants on."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit ...against the K.K.K. in the '20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Wh...oever takes offence at this combination, and whoever does not consider a revolution important unless it is blatant and palpable, has not yet risen to the lofty and broad vantage point of the history of mankind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dream of the typical American girl-next-door still doesn't include a good pair of quadriceps.... But there's been a big change... in attitudes. Muscles are becoming O.K. for women; it's even O.K. to sweat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »