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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