Show americans generally unappreciative of the benefits of real leisure by DR DANIEL GREGORY MASON columbia university in america little true leisure exists what we have eliav is mostly not the genuine article we have plenty of what we carelessly suppose to be lei leisure more probably thanks to our economic good fortune than is to be found anywhere else in the world but most of it spoiled by wrong enio dional attitudes and fallacious ideas falls short of creativeness and so BO is not real leisure at all the fatigue 0 poisoned mind and body too dull to enjoy quiet beauty and true thought crave the crude excitements excite ments so abused among us restless less speeding in motor cars from nowhere the rapid movements movement and trivial but exciting dangers of the amusement park superlatives and exaggerations agge egge rations in talk the artificial stimulants find and feverish pumped up gaiety gayety of the wild party the thrills so insistently demanded by the yo younger inger generation violent plastic arts using harsh angles and garish colors noisy mechanical over accented music leisure in order to be fruitful and to make us happy needs some such stimulus and control as work gets largely through social means and our next question must therefore be how can these be achieved in the cose of leisure without withof t jeopardizing as direct social control would seem to do its equally essential spontaneity and irresponsibility |