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

Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

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

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

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

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.

One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future placement in the society.