Word: enjoy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company of four muscular Quakers, he was taken for a brisk walk during which he was encouraged to admire the beauties of nature and enjoy the song of the lark.... He was not allowed any literature that might be considered inflammatory, he was given the Bible, Pilgrim's Progress and Uncle Tom's Cabin.... He was allowed no tobacco, no alcohol, and no red pepper. Cocoa he might have at any hour of the day or night, since the most eminent of his guardians were purveyors of that innocent beverage...
...fringe benefits, European workers already enjoy a system far broader than the best in the U.S. In Italy, fringes often include low-cost housing; in France, a four-week paid vacation for 65% of the work force; and everywhere, liberal retirement pay. Real wages are also increasing fast: last year in France they rose 8%, in Italy 15%, in Germany 6.5%, in Britain 4.2%.. This strategy has already contributed hugely to inflation in France, Italy and the Benelux nations, and rouses fears that a demoralizing new spiral may halt Britain's prosperity...
Readers who want to enjoy the many fascinating parts of this book are urged to approach the Disenchanted Island selectively. Read the beginnings of chapters, skip when it becomes boring, and read the end. Always read the long series of footnotes Spears has placed at the end of each section: they tell more about Auden than many of the chapters do. They indicate, for example, whom he travelled with, what he read, where he went, and whom he wrote to. The chronologies of Auden's life are equally intriguing: One cryptic note on page 76 reads "Earlier in the year...
...Nature is a myth, invention of the elite. Let us hurry the advance of technology, that others may be free to enjoy the myth...
People who write good social criticism these days are essentially gadgeteers. Like Freud, contemporary social critics enjoy tinkering around with their own perceptions, ordering them with analytical categories taken from the academe as well as with a journalist's feel for day-to-day events. However, in using this approach, modern critics have not ignored the austere tradition of prophet and moralist, one "crying in the wilderness." Of course, our better critics, the ones we can take seriously, are more sophisticated than a Jonah or Isaiah. Yet, as the old prophets did, men like Riesman worry a lot about what...