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Television. It Has Changed The Way That We Perceive The World Out There, And Though We Know That - Have Indeed Been Bombarded With Analyses On The Consequences For Society, For The Family, And For Individual Psychology - I Don't Believe That We Have Yet Begun To Appreciate The Reach Of Its Subliminal Effects, Of What We Might Call 'the Slow Viruses.' They Not Only Get Into Our Ways Of Seeing, They Pervade The Ways In Which We Weave Our Perceptions Together Into Patterns That Support And Explain Our Thinking And Our Doing And Both Direct And Hinder Various Kinds Of Relationships.

Today, What Most People Live In, Or With, Is The Less-than-nuclear Family. Working Fathers Are Absent From Home During Most Of The Day, The Children Are Schooled Outside It, And Practically All Women Who Work For Money Must Go Outside To Earn Their Living.

I Admire People Who Are Suited To The Contemplative Life. They Can Sit Inside Themselves Like Honey In A Jar And Just Be. It's Wonderful To Have Someone Like That Around, You Always Feel You Can Count On Them. You Can Go Away And Come Back, You Can Change Your Mind And Your Hairdo And Your Politics, And When You Get Through Doing All These Upsetting Things, You Look Around And There They Are, Just The Way They Were, Just Being.

It Is Through The Ghost [writer] That The Great Gift Of Knowledge Which The Inarticulate Have For The World Can Be Made Available.

I Have A Problem About Being Nearly Sixty: I Keep Waking Up In The Morning And Thinking I'm Thirty-one.