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function , by means of great art. The historians and
archeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are
the richest and most faithful daily reflections that any society
ever made of its entire range of activities. The Egyptian
hieroglyph lags far behind in this respect. With TV, the smarter
advertisers have made free with fur and fuzz, and blur and
buzz. They have, in a word, taken a skin-dive. For that is what
the TV viewer is. He is a skin-diver, and he no longer likes garish
daylight on hard, shiny surfaces, though he must continue to
put up with a noisy radio sound track that is painful.