Between Elvis and Alice, rock ___1___ say, a number of rock stars have helped our society ___2___ its beliefs and attitudes. Bob Dylan touched a nerve of ___3___ . He spoke of civil rights, nuclear fallout, and loneliness. He ___4___ of change and of the ___5___ of an older generation.

Chavel was filled with a huge and ___6___ joy. It seemed to him that already he was ___7___- twenty-nine men to draw and only two ___8___ papers left. The chances had suddenly grown in his ___9___ from ten to one to-fourteen to one: the greengrocer had drawn a slip and indicated carelessly and without ___10___ that he was safe.

But now he's going to do something about it. He's going to ___11___ all the goodness of his ___12___, all the apple pie and ___13___ and medals in the ___14___ of his country, and he's going to place it before the people of this country, telling it ___15___ it really is.

The value of snobbery in general, its humanistic" point", consists in its power to ___16___ activity. A society with plenty of snobberies is like a dog with plenty of ___17___ it is not likely to become comatose, every snobbery demands of its devotee's unceasing efforts, a ___18___ of sacrifices. The society snob must be ___19___ lion-hunting; the modernity-snob can never ___20___ from trying to be up-to-date.

I believe that over a period of decades newspapers have become a habit ___21___ than a function. They have held their franchise so long that change has become ___22___ . I do not know, in fact, of any ___23___ that has changed as little in the last twenty years as the ___24___ press. And this resistance to change is the end of ___25___ -which, in turn marks the end of usefulness.

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