I Am Mystified. I Know Only One

In A Foreign Country People Don't Expect You To Be Just Like Them, But In Los Angeles, Which Is Infiltrating The World, They Don't Consider That You Might Be Different Because They Don't Recognize Any Values Except Their Own. And Soon There May Not Be Any Others.

Her Only Flair Is In Her Nostrils.

In San Francisco, Vulgarity, "bad Taste," Ostentation Are Regarded As A Kind Of Alien Blight, An Invasion Or Encroachment From Outside. In Los Angeles, There Is So Much Money And Power Connected With Ostentation That Is No Longer Ludicrous: It Commands A Kind Of Respect. For If The Mighty Behave Like This, Then Quiet Good Taste Means That You Can't Afford The Conspicuous Expenditures, And You Become A Little Ashamed Of Your Modesty And Propriety.

Allowing For Exceptions, There Is Still One Basic Difference Between The Traditional Arts And The Mass-media Arts: In The Traditional Arts, The Artist Grows; In A Mass Medium, The Artist Decays Profitably.

The Critical Task Is Necessarily Comparative, And Younger People Do Not Truly Know What Is New