1. American culture is in many ways still fairly prudish. 2. And although alcohol is forbidden, rarely has there been a culture so obsessed with drinking. 3. As far as avant-garde culture is concerned, there is a built-in time-lag between critical reception and popular acceptance. 4. But on nothing has the culture of contentment been so successful as in shaping the accepted attitude toward the state. 5. But Western culture was very reluctant to authenticate reports of meteorite falls. 6. Culture is the most important yet most elusive dimension of work. 7. Culture was where rational men were free to think and to act and to play public roles. 8. Few cultures have been so willing to tempt the gods. 9. First, the view that oral culture is irrelevant or even hostile to the acquisition of literacy. |