advent of TV. These two events did not coincide by accident. 
TV introduced that “experience in depth” and the “do-it-
yourself” pattern of living that has shattered the image of the 
individualist hard-sell salesman and the docile consumer, just 
as it has blurred the formerly clear figures of the movie stars. 
This is not to suggest that Arthur Miller was trying to explain 
TV to America on the eve of its arrival, though he could as 
appropriately have titled his play “The Birth of the PR Man.” 
Those who saw Harold Lloyd’s World of Comedy  film will 
remember their surprise at how much of the l920s they had 
forgotten. Also, they were surprised to find evidence of how 
naive and simple the Twenties really were. That age of the 
vamps, the sheiks, and the cavemen was a raucous nursery 
compared to our world, in which children read MAD  magazine 
for chuckles. It was a world still innocently engaged in 
expanding and exploding, in separating and teasing and