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

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.

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

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

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.

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

In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for which people are conditioned in childhood; often they possess a relatively timeless attitude toward events.