Farm workers moved in huge numbers to the towns and cities. There, they no longer lived side-by-side with relatives and old acquaintances but with strangers, on whom you had to make a good impression. The post-war years were a time of salesman and corporation, of the company taking care of you for life. Increasingly the individual became just a small component of the larger corporate organism. And people were living that way, too, in the growing, bustling, faceless suburbs. To get along and get ahead in this new kind of tribe, you had to be accepted by the group. That meant being witty, smart,
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