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.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

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.

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

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.