...are typical of the Ph.D. theses, regularly turned out, with perhaps more industry than wit, from the American universities. (p.21)
The producer becomes a fearful wild fowl when he takes the theatre as an independent art. The rise of this new and very belligerent art means that its rights are asserted with the noisiness of a Suffragete. (p.120)
(In reference to a paragraph length sentence on tax exempt items) That sentence...was obviously written by a lawyer in one of his flights of rhetorical secrecy. There isn't any thought or idea that can't be expressed in a fairly simple declarative sentence, or in a series of fairly simple declarative sentences. The contents of Section G of Form 1040, I am perfectly sure, could be stated so that the average person could grasp it without suffering dizzy spells. I could state it plainly myself if I could get some lawyer to disentangle it for me first. I'll make my government a proposition: for a five-dollar bill (and costs) I will state it plainly. (p.107)
