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.

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

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.

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

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

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