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

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

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

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.

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

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