Magazines: Childish, Idiotic & Asinine

Most playwrights hate theater critics, and many politicians claim that political reporters misquote them. But last week an artist complained that almost everything that's wrong in this world is caused by people who write.

"The first mistake in this whole world was the invention of printing," said Architect Philip Cortelyou Johnson in an interview in Vogue. "I am sick and tired of all the word-minded people in this world. The word-minded people are the ones who set the standards. An artist or an architect conceives and creates, but then in the final analysis he's at the mercy of...

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