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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