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

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.

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

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

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for which people are conditioned in childhood; often they possess a relatively timeless attitude toward events.

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