manuscript cultures, rather than of print. Europeans have 
always felt that the English and Americans lacked depth in their 
culture. Since radio, and especially since TV, English and 
American literary critics have exceeded the performance of any 
European in depth and subtlety. The beatnik reaching out for 
Zen is only carrying the mandate of the TV mosaic out into the 
world of words and perception. The paperback itself has 
become a vast mosaic world in depth, expressive of the 
changed sense-life of Americans, for whom depth experience in 
words, as in physics, has become entirely acceptable, and even 
sought after.

     Just where to begin to examine the transformation of 
American attitudes since TV is a most arbitrary affair, as can 
be seen in a change so great as the abrupt decline of baseball. 
The removal of the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles was a