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

The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

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

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

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

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.