such a culture at once as retrograde and incompatible with its 
new mechanical stress. The Charleston, with its aspect of a 
mechanical doll agitated by strings, appears in Russia: as an 
avant-garde form. We, on the other hand, find the avant-garde  
in the cool and the primitive, with its promise of depth 
involvement and integral expression.

     The “hard” sell and the “hot” line become mere comedy in 
the TV age, and the death of all the salesmen at one stroke of 
the TV axe has turned the hot American culture into a cool one 
that is quite unacquainted with itself. America, in fact, would 
seem to be living through the reverse process that Margaret 
Mead described in Time  magazine (September 4, 1954): “There 
are too many complaints about society having to move too 
fast to keep up with the machine. There is great advantage in 
moving fast if you move completely, if social, educational, and