Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 by a burgeoning store of goods and services...
...EXPERIENCE: A tourist need no longer content himself with enjoying what he sees. He can give himself a feeling of really using his time by taking pictures. It is easy to understand why love is so vulnerable to competition if we reflect that we are spending time on only one person and cannot even take photographs of the occasion...
...stand as a kind of example for the harried leisure class. He does not own a swimming pool, a boat or a summer cottage and frowns on watching television while eating dinner, reading the newspaper or making love. His way of using consumption time -Linderese for leisure-is to take a walk somewhere. This month he and his 9-year-old son Goran will leave for a hike through the mountains of Da-larna in central Sweden...
...McLintock, recalls Actress Maureen O'Hara, "he didn't like the way I was doing a scene, and he said angrily, 'C'mon, Maureen, get going. This is your scene.' I said I was trying to go fifty-fifty. 'Fifty-fifty, hell,' he said. 'It's your scene. Take it.' Then he added under his breath, 'If you can.' " The master of the western, Director John Ford, calls Wayne "a splendid actor who has had very little chance to act." Agrees Director Andrew McLaglen: "All of a sudden they're saying that he's an actor. Well, he always...
...Duke publicly. He got the message. "I think those blacklisted people should have been sent over to Russia," he now declares. "They'd have been taken care of over there, and if the Commies ever won over here, why hell, those guys would be the first ones they'd take care of ?after me." Still, even when he became president of the alliance, Wayne viewed politics as a necessary evil. "My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment," he confesses. "If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick...