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Word: pauperizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Too Much Is Too Little | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...enough for both of them. They called a meeting and asked Billy to abdicate. When he refused, they threatened to take him before the high judges. Rather than risk a fight that he was likely to lose anyway, Billy-still a prince in name and by no means a pauper-gave up his throne last week. After his abdication, the Trustbusters said that they would nonetheless try to stop General from taking over the empire. But Prince was gone, having retreated to clip his coupons and count all his money. Moral: Uneasy lies the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Takeovers: The Prince, the General And the Greyhound | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...refusal to be any party's dog made a political pariah of him and a near pauper (he was unable at the height of his powers to get more than a $60 advance for a book). Doubtless today he would be equally unpopular for pointing out the moral obliquity of those doves on Viet Nam who became hungry hawks in the Israeli-Arab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Odd Man In: George Orwell | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...SPLENDID PAUPER, by Allen Andrews. The biography of Moreton Frewen, Winston Churchill's froward uncle and a born loser who went from one financial debacle to another with style, imagination and diligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Straw Hat | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

...SPLENDID PAUPER, by Allen Andrews. The biography of Moreton Frewen, Winston Churchill's froward uncle and a born loser who went from one financial debacle to another with style, imagination and diligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 16, 1968 | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

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