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...knows, a sociologist is a man who is daily astonished by the commonplace. Usually, this professional sense of wonder finds its outlet in recording masses of data and using them to suggest trends, shifts in manners and mores, and the like. Occasionally one comes along who, like Tho stein Veblen (The Theory of the Leisure Class), gives society a therapeutic, though not necessarily accurate, boot in the pants. But a few of them suffer from a rare though virulent occupational disease. They become hectoring critics of their fellow men. They scold. They even grit their teeth...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 10:05 a.m., CBS). Discussion of Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class...
...Meaning of Elegance. The American Look has developed almost unnoticed by the women who wear it. "Elegant dress," wrote Economist Thorstein Veblen in 1899 in The Theory of the Leisure Class, "serves its purpose of elegance not only in that it is expensive but also because it is the insignia of leisure." But in the U.S., the meaning of elegance has changed as much as the meaning of leisure. It is a leisure of action-barbecue parties in the backyard, motor trips along country roads and across the country, weekend golf and water skiing. From America's lively leisure...
...Lonely Crowd (373 pp.)-with Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer-Yale ($4). Others: Faces in the Crowd (741 pp.)-Yale ($5); Thorstein Veblen (209 pp.)-Scribner ($2.75); The Lonely Crowd (349 pp.)-Doubleday (95?); Individualism Reconsidered (507 pp.) -Free Press...
...comedy which runs approximately from Sterne's Tristram Shandy, through Peacock's novels, down via The Egoist to much of Oscar Wilde, Shaw and even the early Aldous Huxley. And yet, Meredith remains as freakishly separate from these other links in the literary chain as does Thorstein Veblen in the chain of social philosophers-and for much the same reasons. He tried to depict life accurately, but, in Wilde's words: "His style would be quite sufficient of itself to keep life at a respectful distance...