It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

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.

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

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

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

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