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?”.
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.
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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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