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...pretty much all there in the subtitle. Conley, a New York University sociologist, asks why middle- to upper-class professionals who were once able to put in a full day's work at the office, enjoy their leisure time, save up for a house and retire well now find themselves working more for seemingly less. There's a new class of Americans in town, says Conley. "Changes in three areas - the economy, the family and technology - have combined to alter the social world and give birth to this new type of American professional. This new breed - the intravidual - has multiple...
...multiple worlds" - is fascinating. So is another useful but slightly silly neologism: "weisure," Conley's term for our increasing tendency to work during leisure time, thanks to advances in portable personal technology. As Conley writes, there are fewer and fewer boundaries in the world of the middle- to upper-class professional. "Investment v. consumption; private sphere v. public space; price v. value; home v. office; leisure v. work; boss v. employee" - the walls between them all are increasingly blurring or falling altogether. We seem to work all the time because technology now makes it possible to do so. Constant motion...
...closely, there's another story to tell. Maybe the fascination with the rise and fall of the Wall Street titans is that unlike past recessions, this one affects everyone. It's hard to feel sorry for people for whom retrenchment means shifting from the private jet to commercial first class, but it does mean we're all having the same conversation, and psychologists point out we're happier when we're all in the soup together. The notion that misery loves company may be less about malice than about solace: that problems shared grow smaller, that courage is contagious...
...easier to put in practices with reading period,” Delaney-Smith said. “In my estimation, it is valuable time spent on tweaking things and making adjustments. We’re not going to be rusty. Besides, when aren’t class conflicts, papers, and review sessions ever a factor...
Tiptoe Through the Tulips. O.K., it may not be tulip season quite yet, but OpenSkies has a special on fares from JFK to Amsterdam in Prem+ class (i.e., almost-business class, with 52 inches of legroom, and a 140-degree seat recline) for just $1,000 round-trip, inclusive of all taxes and fees. It's a good deal, considering that fares are usually around $1,700 to $2,000. Book...