Language is a form of organized stutter.

The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.

First we build the tools, then they build us.

The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.