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.

There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.

Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly exposed to all the blandishments of mass culture-even the churches which follow the hillbillies to the city often make use of the same "hard sell" that the advertisers and politicians do.

The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.