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 children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.

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

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

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.

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.