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.

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

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.

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.

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.