An excerpt from a 1980 Review of some Book the speaker wrote around that time: "But enough. This is a ridiculous book. If it can be said to possess a virtue, it is that it demonstrates with particular clarity the secret of Richard Sennett’s success. For he is an author who over the years has managed to trick out just about every advanced cliché about modern life in the language-and, as it were, with the “authority”-of respectable philosophic and sociological thought. " And he's high in this Center for Capitalism and Society? Poor capitalism. Poor society.