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cing chairs and smiling smokestacks. More contemporary characters - notably the "Tom and Jerry" duo and the "Road Runner-Coyote" tandem - have filled children's eyes with non-lingual visual havoc since the mid-1950s. One can truly walk up to a thirty year-old or a five year-old, say "beep-beep" and receive an acknowledgement of recognition. These binding cultural ties did not exist in the environment of the pre-television era.

Arnold Toynbee, discussing the growth of civilizations in A Study of History, notes th

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