If Anything Remains More Or Less Unchanged,

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.

The Children Themselves, Before They Get Access To A Car, Are Captives Of Their Suburb, Save For Those Families Where The Housewives Surrender Continuity In Their Own Lives To Chauffeur Their Children To Lessons, Doctors, And Other Services That Could Be Reached Via Public Transport In The City.

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.

The Ethical Regime [of The Jews] Was Quite Definitely Ptolemaic, Revolving Around The Small Group Of Jews, Not The Larger Gentile Group And, Accordingly, They Learned To Remain Unimpressed By Gentile Temporal Power. Being Unimpressed Did Not Mean Being Unafraid Material Power Might Beat Or Starve One To Death; It Did Mean Refusing To Surrender Moral Hegemony To The Majority Merely Because It Had Power.