Elaine Kendall

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The Happy Mediocrity

On Leisure in America:

“The prospect of an inevitable increase in leisure time confounds and frightens America. Psychiatrists report alarming increases in “weekend syndrome” and “Sunday neurosis”; sociologists meet to discuss the potentially disastrous effects of a three-day workweek, and foundations channel millions into research on the leisure problem. Leisure doesn’t give us a moment’s rest.”


Selected Works

1. Non-Fiction

Peculiar Institutions

Provocative social history--thoughtful, witty, and surprising.

The Happy Mediocrity

Dealing with the basics of American life.

The Upper Hand

Time-tested methods of women-watchers applied to men.
4. Article

Is Theater Necessary?

from Santa Barbara News-Press 4/03
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