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.

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

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.

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

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