[00:01]array

[00:05]Illustrated with an entertaining array of examples

[00:09]from both high and low culture,

[00:13]the trend that Mr. McWhorter documents is unmistakable.

[00:20]spray

[00:23]Though these farmers have largely switched in recent years

[00:28]to new pest-resistant cultivars,

[00:31]they spray as much as they did with nonresistant varieties.

[00:38]tray

[00:40]I tracked down another tray-holder,

[00:43]who despite a mustached leathery face

[00:47]looked vaguely familiar,

[00:49]like someone who may have bullied me in high school.