instead of “taking it on the chin.” It can only be repeated that 
human history is a record of “taking it on the chin.”

     Emile Durkheim long ago expressed the idea that the 
specialized task always escaped the action of the social 
conscience. In this regard, it would appear that the artist is the 
social conscience and is treated accordingly! “We have no art,” 
say the Balinese; “we do everything as well as possible.”

     The modern metropolis is now sprawling helplessly after 
the impact of the motorcar. As a response to the challenge of 
railway speeds the suburb and the garden city arrived too late, 
or just in time to become a motorcar disaster. For an 
arrangement of functions adjusted to one set of intensities 
becomes unbearable at another intensity. And a technological 
extension of our bodies designed to alleviate physical stress