Occupation: Writer Birth: February 13, 1910 Death: February 4, 1997
A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to un….
Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem..
The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and mo….
the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themsel….
The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees ….
He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own..
... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide..
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards ….
The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries will take their plac….
The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money….