Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world.

So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up Fifth Avenue once a year... a Cuban parade or a Puerto Rican parade - many other countries. So they really don't forget.