Glad I'm not the only one here who found that book to be an eye-opener. I was already too far into the design world to hit the brakes and turn the car around, but that book did influence what I ended up doing and where. Between "The Painted Word" and some of Thomas Hart Benton's books (which almost seem to have been purged), I developed a distaste for the elite's "ah-h-ht wuh-h-hld" that probably helped me more than I know.