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While most students here will have already turned the corner on middle aged sloth by the time they graduate, the over-60-year-old track coach will probably still be fighting the evil forces of FLAB (Fight Lean Athletic Bodies for the unitiated...

Author: By Stephen W. Parker, | Title: Coach McCurdy Shows Eternal Youth | 3/12/1976 | See Source »

...effect the unintended heritage of the Xerox machine. Since its perfection less than two decades ago, the green-eyed deus ex machina has helped alter the course of history and changed forever the daily rhythms of white-collar life. The photocopier has, its detractors say, fostered waste, encouraged sloth, stifled creativity and punched holes in the copyright laws. Bureaucrats complain that the machine now makes confidential exchanges all but impossible; foes of official secrecy complain that fear of Xerox-abetted leaks has made bureaucrats more secretive than ever. Whatever the complaint, in view of the social, economic and moral consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: What Hath XEROX Wrought? | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...probably pastrami sandwiches. On the roof, like a lizard on a rock, there is a goofy dragon; its tail is dollar bills, its hide is plated with nickels for scales. As its pink wings flap, its head lolls over the façade with a kind of maniacal sloth. Above this symbol of Capital, in the tower, sits the old five-and-tenner Frank Winfield Woolworth himself, observing the seagirt isle with the proprietary air of King Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gorgeous Parody | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...breasts of most of the students I have met or worked with during my brief stay. Many students are already mature human beings engaged in useful thought and action, but, to the extent that they are, they are doing so in spite of the current Harvard trend toward sloth, trendiness, pandering to the worst in student demands, and general collapse of will and sense of purpose among many of the people who run the University...

Author: By Aram BAKSHIAN Jr., | Title: Confessions of a Pol In Academia | 12/16/1975 | See Source »

Bellow. His life settled into a long, pixilated idyl: winters of bohemian sloth on Singer Island, Fla., sleepy summers at his mother's house in upstate New York, side trips to Europe and Nassau, and an endless supply of booze and accommodating young women. Still, he insists, "my life-style of lugging my own soiled sweat shirts and skivvies to the laundromat and lunching on cheeseburgers and draft beer had altered not a whit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Woe Is Me | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

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