the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what … - Alison Lurie

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You cannot go outside of A and Z in the realm of literature; likewise Christ Jesus is First and Last of God's new creation, and all that is in between; you cannot get outside of that.

Alison Lurie

the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.

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As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

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Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.

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We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

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in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.

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We say something every morning when we decide how to dress.

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