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...cannibals eat Ihe same food -men. That, at any rate, is the acidulous theme of French Novelist Herve Bazin's A Tribe of Women. The four women who dwell at La Fouve, a windswept, French provincial Manderley, are sisters to the witches in Macbeth. They bubble and bubble, toil and make trouble...
...friend, companion, confidant. He is teacher, counselor, shopping guide. He is entertainer, public servant. He serves the housewife, the handicapped, those who toil by night. His audiences accept him as one of the family. They write him; they hang on his words. He has great responsibility. He lives...
After three years spent in rowing, riding, and travelling, there comes an examination, which requires a week or two of preparation; and then, having taken his degree, the student leaves the classic shades with a better education than the most unremitting toil would have obtained for him here. Whether this is the view which the writers in our papers take or not, I heartily join with them in the wish that Harvard may be able soon to call itself a true University...
...asserts that the moral aim of capitalism is not toil but leisure (leisure here defined not as play but as the "liberal work" of civilization). Real capitalism should bring not only full employment but full enjoyment by men "of the leisure work that machine-produced wealth can make possible...
Economic Citizenship. The vision at the heart of The Capitalist Manifesto is that automation will make the machine the superslave of man. Just as in the Greek state the slave-owning few were freed from toil to pursue the duties of citizenship and the work of civilization, so all men could be similarly freed (argue K. & A.) in a future society where machines are slaves. In such a society, men could shun the "subsistence work" and "drudgery" involved in the production of "goods of the body" and-apart from the necessary tasks of management-turn to the arts and sciences...