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

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

Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly exposed to all the blandishments of mass culture-even the churches which follow the hillbillies to the city often make use of the same "hard sell" that the advertisers and politicians do.

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

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.

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.