There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community

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?

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

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

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

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.

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