“ERNEST FRIEDLANDER: Be quiet! Be quiet! LEO MERCURÉ: Why should we be quiet? You’re making enough row to blast the roof off! Why should you have the monopoly of noise? Why should your pompous moral pretensions be allowed to hurdle across the city without any competition? We’ve all got lungs. Let’s use them! Let’s shriek like mad! Let’s enjoy ourselves!” EnjoymentEnjoy LifePompousUnconventionalPomposityBourgeois SocietyConventionalismPretensionsBohemianismUnconventionalityBabbitt Book:Design for Living Source: Design for Living
“LEO MERCURÉ: The Daily Express says (the play)’s disgusting. GILDA: We should be cut to the quick if it said anything else.” LowbrowConventionalismHighbrow Book:Design for Living Source: Design for Living