drive to participation has ended adolescence, and every 
American home has its Berlin wall.

     Toynbee is very generous in providing examples of widely 
varied challenge and collapse, and is especially apt in pointing 
to the frequent and futile resort to futurism and archaism as 
strategies of encountering radical change. But to point back 
to the day of the horse or to look forward to the coming of 
antigravitational vehicles is not an adequate response to the 
challenge of the motor-car. Yet these two uniform ways of 
backward and forward looking are habitual ways of avoiding 
the discontinuities of present experience with their demand 
for sensitive inspection and appraisal. Only the dedicated 
artist seems to have the power for encountering the present 
actuality.