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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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