Frankenstein/reception

Famous quotes containing the words frankenstein and/or reception:

“I want him to know and feel pain, so that when I alleviate it he’ll also know gratitude.... What I create I must control.”
—Kenneth Langtry. Herbert L. Strock. Prof. Frankenstein (Whit Bissell)

“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)