People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique without much artistry can still dazzle us in the manner of the circus or sports arena translated to a higher plane. Though the perfect blend of the two elements is the consummation devoutly to be wished, the real enemy of good ballet is not the slight preponderance of one or the other but the prevalence of pantomime--the turning of dance into second-rate theater.

Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.

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.

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

Dinner theater is anti-culture.

Chess is a cold bath for the mind