We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.

In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.

There's no geist like the Zeitgeist.

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

Everything that would be said against the Eixample's heirs, from Le Corbusier's 'ville radieuse' to Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, was already said, with far less justice, about the Eixample itself. And all its critics concurred that the basic mistake was to have left the planning of a city in the hands of a socialist.

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.