Thursday, April 21, 2011

What to do with leisure ...

... Judith Flanders explores the history of Broadway, according to Larry Stempel, Stephen Sondheim and Charlotte Greenspan - TLS.

James Garfield, the twentieth President of the United States (and a character in Sondheim’s Assassins), suggested that “We may divide the whole struggle of the human race into two chapters. First, the fight to get leisure; and then the second fight of civilization – what shall we do with our leisure when we get it?”.

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  1. Funny. James Garfield came up in one of my own posts a few days ago. You can get a notion of how he spent his free time here: http://bit.ly/eoq2Ar

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