Five days in the western Carolinas enough to try the soul of any man. Spartanburg destitute like Dubuque, Iowa. The Biltmore estate in Asheville pure Disneyland as the 'resort', Grove Park where we stayed. More disturbing the observation that segregation still exists in the South; there is no mixing of the races and the blacks understandably hostile to whites. Such a difference from the North!

Reading Adorno always provides some solace for the critical soul. In 1944 he wrote that movies and radio "are just businesses made into an ideology to justify the rubbish they produce." Today the poor man would have been driven to madness.