Busy Being Busy This would seem to be a modern day obsession.
Shakespeare, most obviously: the reason we consider it noble and elevating for Shakespeare to do what he did - and for people to understand Shakespeare - is that he takes us out of our day-to-day obsessions.
Capital is an ambitious state-of-the-nation fiction with a positively Victorian breadth, dramatising many present-day obsessions, from bank meltdowns to Islamist terrorism, house prices to parking tickets.
Through its rich cast of characters – including a City banker and his shopoholic wife, a British Pakistani family who own the local shop, a teenage football star from Senegal and an elderly widow who has lived on the street since she was born - Lanchester's panoramic novel dramatizes many of our present-day obsessions, from bank meltdowns to Islamist terrorism, house prices to parking tickets.
The humanities lesson moves on to consider the present-day obsession with cosmetic surgery.
She began renovating apartments as a hobby and said that she had now turned it into an 18-hour-a-day obsession.
Much as we can rag on Don for not growing or changing enough to suit our modern-day obsession with spiritual and personal evolution, he did make some big moves recently.
A BIGGER PRIZE: How We Can Do Better than the Competition by Margaret Heffernan Everybody loves to win a "best of" prize, but have we ever thought about the cost of this modern-day obsession with competition and winning?
This Day 1 obsession extends to the company's Seattle headquarters near Pike Place market (the birthplace of the city's other corporate giant, Starbucks).
When Mr. Kroplick, the chief executive of a medical communications company in Manhattan, realized that the race route included Glen Cove Road, "a road I drive on every day," his obsession, as he jokingly calls it, began.
My crazy one-day-trip obsession was born from both practicality and paranoia.
