When Watergate was still a “caper,” I saw it as a faded replay of Mission Impossible. The burglars then seemed to have filched an inferior scenario from a famous TV series. But as one expose after another tumbled off the …
In mass society, problems related to plagiarism and authorship can take on bizarre characteristics. Where large-scale organizations prevail, the head man is presumed to be too busy, too engaged, and too important to write his own speeches, policy papers, books, …
To be contemptuous of the fine arts in suburbia has by now come to seem as “peculiar” as respect for or practice of the fine arts used to be in small-town America. The suburban Babbitt knows that he had better …
