The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

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

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

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

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.