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...does not cohere with the values of responsibility, collaboration, and sacrifice we search for. Do not mistake this for anything but what it is—a sign that if a particular path is not already well worn by the easy travel of others, it shall be a path untaken by these so-called leaders. They will always feel a disquieting comfort in the welcoming arms of privilege...
...Americans are allotted few vacation days (14 days, on average) compared with other industrialized countries, but ironically, we don't even use them. The average American will leave four vacation days on the table this year, which adds up to a whopping 574 million days of untaken vacation, collectively. Our relationship to relaxation seems contradictory. We spend more money than anyone else in the world on leisure--fully one-third of our income--and yet we are simultaneously No. 1 in the world at not taking vacations...
...long word that I don't know, I take it out," he says. Lately Flynt has hired experienced editors to help him, waged a high-minded campaign against smoking and scored a minor coup by signing Norman Mailer to do an interview with John Ehrlichman-for $12,500. Untaken offers include $1 million each to Gloria Steinem, Raquel Welch, Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Barbara Walters, among others, to pose in the nude...
Some, however, left alone, tanned but untaken...
After four months of radioactive cobalt treatment in a Moscow hospital, Mexico's pudgy Communist Artist Diego Rivera, 69, bounded out with a paean to the "miracle cure" of his skin cancer. The Communists picked up the tab for all his expenses, so Rivera made a grateful bid (untaken) to his hosts: "I would consider it the climax of my career if the Soviet government asked me to paint something for them here!" The U.S.S.R. struck Diego Rivera as little short of paradise. Said he: "I am very happy to have been sick here...