The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals. — John Simon Copy Share Image
This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. — John Simon Copy Share Image
Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female. — John Simon Copy Share Image
Retailing is a unique destination. What you need is stronger critical mass. — John Simon Copy Share Image
Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses. — John Simon Copy Share Image
The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy… — John Simon Copy Share Image
“The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur,… — John Simon Copy Share Image
People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what? — John Simon Copy Share Image
Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough. — John Simon Copy Share Image
Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique without much… — John Simon Copy Share Image
