But it's his very sense of beauty, his taste for the elegant moves on the board of complex social games, that crosses the lines; he makes frivolity itself seem essential, leisure a necessity, idleness an essential mode of creation and money all the more important, yet still insufficient.
But it's his very sense of beauty, his taste for the elegant moves on the board of complex social games, that crosses the lines; he makes frivolity itself seem essential, leisure a necessity, idleness an essential mode of creation — and money all the more important, yet still insufficient.
If work is concerned with securing life's necessities, leisure is concerned with cultivating its amenities.
For most of the travellers I spoke to, the trip aboard the Central Line was not one of leisure but of economic necessity.
Asked which of a long list of items – from food and housing to clothing and leisure – they considered essential to avoid poverty in contemporary Britain, respondents defined items as necessities which they had considered luxuries in earlier surveys.
In 1899 Thorstein Veblen, an economist, described the economic necessity of efficient leisure to a society where conspicuous consumption, leisure, and other "emulative or invidious comparisons" had replaced hereditary emblems of status.
Mohd Ilyas, chairman of Rotherham and Barnsley Liberal Democrats, said in a statement that the party "regret the necessity to close leisure centres run by BPL" and cuts were "inevitable when budgets for adult social care and other budgets are under such pressure".
Yet the "cooking paradox" is no mystery.Released from having to spend so much of our income and time on feeding ourselves, food shopping and cooking is now a leisure activity, not the historically burdensome necessity it was, especially for generations of women whose lives were dominated by having to keep the family fed.Justine Brian London* Letter appears online only.
Make sure you give yourself breaks for leisure and for using the laboratory, and the kitchen necessities.
The present results indicate the necessity of a differentiation of workplace and leisure time PA in the context of assessing health-enhancing effects of PA in LBP patients.
