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Briggs pulled the muscle early in the first game of his match at Princeton and lost badly to Peter Linder, 3-0. The injury came at a key point in the season as Harvard faces undefeated Penn this Wednesday...
...keep a cow," Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "that cow milks me." Linder argues that the same holds true of the commodity time, and that as one result, people become slaves of the possessions and services that compete to fill their leisure hours. "One may possibly buy more of everything," he writes, "but one cannot conceivably do more of everything." To belong to a golf club as well as a sailing club is to spend half one's time going from one to the other, the other half observing all the social amenities that they entail...
...arguments that Linder offers are gently satirical. A mischievous streak rises irrepressibly in his book. Some of his more trenchant diagnoses...
Economist Linder offers no solutions...
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...