Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure.

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.