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.

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.

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

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

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

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

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.