jobs . In the cult of the movie star, we have allowed ourselves 
somnambulistically to abandon our Western traditions, 
conferring on these jobless images a mystic role. They are 
collective embodiments of the multitudinous private lives of 
their subjects.

     An extraordinary instance of the power of the telephone 
to involve the whole person is recorded by psychiatrists, who 
report that neurotic children lose all neurotic symptoms when 
telephoning. The New York Times  of September 7, 1949 printed 
an item that provides bizarre testimony to the cooling 
participational character of the telephone:

          On September 6, 1949, a psychotic veteran, 
     Howard B. Unruh, in a mad rampage on the streets of 
     Camden, New Jersey, killed thirteen people, and then