Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope succeeding generations will be able to be idle. I hope that nine-tenths of their time will be leisure time; that they may enjoy their days, and the earth, and the beauty of this beautiful world; that they may rest by the sea and dream; that they may dance and sing, eat and drink...
Linder's socio-economic put-down is based on the assumption that the rarest element on earth is time. Time cannot be stored or saved, or consumed at a rate faster than it is produced. The rich man has no more of it than the pauper-and no less. Previous economic theory, says Linder, fails to take into sufficient account that leisure time must be consumed, either by doing something or doing nothing. For a society both af fluent and leisured, and anxious to put every moment to good use, there are simply too many things to do. Overwhelmed...
Like the very poor, who are forced to be passive because they have no choice, the well-to-do Linder family actively fills many a leisure hour in the pursuit of idleness-and in those vanishing arts of reading, thinking, enjoying the earth and-the TV dinner notwithstanding-eating and talking with friends...
Terry Robbins, a Chicago coordinator for the radical S.D.S., considers Wayne "terrific and total. He's tough, down to earth, and he says and acts what he believes. He's completely straight and really groovy. I mean, if they really want to make a movie about Che Guevara, they ought to have Wayne play...
Died. Douglas S. Moore, 75, composer and musicologist, who mined the fields of Americana in his popular operas, notably The Devil and Daniel Webster (1939), Giants in the Earth (1951), and The Ballad of Baby Doe (1956), which reconstructed the life of Colorado Silver King Horace Tabor; of pneumonia; in Greenport...