Busy bodies : why our time-obsessed society keeps us running in place / Lee Burns ; with illustrations by Shinji Isozaki.
Argues that Americans are seeking immediate gratification instead of long-term rewards, and suggests that this impatience is leading to hectic, less fulfilling lives.
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
℗♭1993.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machinery of time. -The value of time. -The paradox of the good life. -Rising curtains, falling attendance. -Chaste by time. -Cleanliness, fitness, beautifulness. -Housework. -Undoing others. -Young folks in trouble. Old folks doing well. -The disservicing of America. -Time for the matters of the mind. -Who runs America? -Waste-making haste. -Time future. -Saving these United States of America.