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?

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

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

One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future placement in the society.

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

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

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.