participation in creativity. Nevertheless, even today the 
homogenized consumer complains when asked to participate in 
creating or completing an abstract poem or painting or 
structure of any kind. Yet Poe knew even then that 
participation in depth followed at once from the telegraph 
mosaic. The more lineal and literal-minded of the literary brains 
“just couldn’t see it.” They still can’t see it. They prefer not to 
participate in the creative process. They have accommodated 
themselves to the completed packages, in prose and verse and 
in the plastic arts. It is these people who must confront, in 
every classroom in the land, students who have accommodated 
themselves to the tactile and nonpictorial modes of symbolist 
and mythic structures, thanks to the TV image.

     Life  magazine for August 10, 1962, had a feature on 
how “Too Many Subteens Grow Up Too Soon and Too Fast.”