Keeping busy.
From: Social Research
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Date: 6/22/2005
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Author: Ryan, Alan
PIRANDELLO'S PLAY SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR HAS spawned endless feeble witticisms of the form "six x in search of a y." I was tempted to begin this paper with another: six episodes in the history of ideas about work and leisure in search of a common theme. The temptation was easy to resist; I have a theme looking for a grounding in my six episodes. I begin with a short introduction to lay out my theme, then move through the six episodes: Adam's Curse, the Protestant Ethic ...
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