chief—almost his sole—recreation had been reading and talking, and when he did watch television he usually limited himself to lighter fare such as Hogan’s Heroes. Always a staunch Catholic, he was generally dismayed by the casual attitude towards sex and drugs taken by television’s children. Eventually he developed the notion that any beneficial effects of a television-induced sensory shift had been nullified by the introduction of what he called “discarnate man.” The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this notion, had weakened the sense, particularly among youth, of possessing physical bodies and private identities. Private morality, then, was passe—only tribal affiliations counted in the Global Village.
Still, he continued every year teaching at the university and
