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

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.

The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.

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

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

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

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