The Playing Field Is More Sacred Than

His Administration Apparently Means To Define Itself As A Television Program Instead Of A Government...i Don't Know If It Can Please Both Its Sponsors And Its Intended Audience.

The State Of Perpetual Emptiness Is, Of Course, Very Good For Business.

Under The Rules Of A Society That Cannot Distinguish Between Profit And Profiteering, Between Money Defined As Necessity And Money Defined As Luxury, Murder Is Occasionally Obligatory And Always Permissible.

The National Distrust Of The Contemplative Temperament Arises Less From An Innate Philistinism Than From A Suspicion Of Anything That Cannot Be Counted, Stuffed, Framed Or Mounted Over The Fireplace In The Den.

The Mystical Nature Of American Consumption Accounts For Its Joylessness. We Spend A Great Deal Of Time In Stores, But If We Don't Seem To Take Much Pleasure In Our Buying, It's Because We're Engaged In The Acts Of Sacrifice And Self-definition. Abashed In The Presence Of Expensive Merchandise, We Recognize Ourselves . . . As Suppliants Admitted To A Shrine.