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

The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

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.

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

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.