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Darkly handsome with thinning hair, he spent almost a decade as a stage actor, turned to writing in the 1950s, and soon developed into an acclaimed, though sometimes confounding chronicler of English subsociety.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their new book is an expert guided tour of that arcane subsociety in which play is as vital as work is to the adult.

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Nearly one-fourth of Brevard County's residents have a college education, six times the national figure; incomes in this affluent subsociety range from $8,000 to the moon.

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