Show Americans Generally Unappreciative of the Benefits of Real Leisure By Dy DR DANIEL GREGORY MASON Columbia University In America little true leisure exists what exists what we have is mostly not the genuine article We have plenty of what t we carelessly cl suppose to be leisure leis ure more lire more probably thanks to our eron economic mic good fortune than is to be found anywhere else in the world but most of it spoiled by wron wrong emotional emotional emo emo- attitudes and fallacious ideas falls short of creativeness creati and aud ElOis so ElO sois sois is not real leisure at all The poisoned fatigue-poisoned mind and aDd body too dull to enjoy quiet quitt beauty and 2nd true thought crave crae the crude excitements so abused among us rf restless rest rest- t t- less speeding in motor cars from Crom nowhere the rapid movements and nd trivial but exciting dangers of the amusement park superlatives superlativE's and ex exaggerations exaggerations exaggerations ex- ex in talk the artificial stimulants and feverish pumped up gayety of the wild party the thrills so insistently demanded demand d by t the h younger generation violent plastic arts using harsh angles and I colors noisy mechanical over accented music i Leisure in order to be fruitful and to I make us happy needs nd some somi- such stimulus and control as work gets largely through social means and our next neat question must therefore be lie how can these e be achieved in the I case of leisure without jeopardizing as ns direct social control would se seem rn to do its equally qually ps essential spontaneity and irresponsibility |