She loved her hippietastic mom but wasn't quite sure she was ready to introduce her Constance friends to her.

They felt that the fellow was a quockerwodger rather than a politician, an againster rather than a true American, an oppositionist in fundamental things rather than a sincere patriot.

Pop that light on, will you?

McLuhan believes that the world is rapidly becoming a global village, in which mankind communicates in a supermodern version of the way tribal societies were once related.