The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.

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

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

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

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

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

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