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tearing. Today, with TV, we are experiencing the opposite
process of integrating and interrelating that is anything but
innocent. The simple faith of the salesman in the irresistibility
of his line (both talk and goods) now yields to the complex
togetherness of the corporate posture, the process and the
organization.
Ads have proved to be a self-liquidating form of
community entertainment. They came along just after the
Victorian gospel of work, and they promised a Beulah land of
perfectibility, where it would be possible to “iron shirts without
hating your husband.” And now they are deserting the
individual consumer-product in favor of the all-inclusive and
never-ending process that is the Image of any great corporate
enterprise. The Container Corporation of America does not
feature paper bags and paper cups in its ads, but the container