To mark the BBC Radio 4 documentary The Power of Sloth, zoologist and author of Life in the Sloth Lane, Lucy Cooke, unleashes her inner sloth to discover why being lazy could actually be the ...
“The College Essay Is Dead,” warns a recent Atlantic piece. And yes, it does provide a way for procrastinating, slothful students to submit plausible essays. Maybe they won’t get A’s, but most of the ...
Dr Hatano was worried that the Japanese were busy importing a slothful American lifestyle, as well as a love of watching baseball, and wanted to help them get more active. He reckoned that if he ...
"It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than so spent as to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy," Carnegie wrote. For Carnegie, himself a ...
And it is clear that white Americans are not simply unwilling to effect these changes; they are, in the main, so slothful have they become, unable even to envision them. It must be added that the ...
Hurley, Kelly 1990. Hereditary taint and cultural contagion: The social etiology of fin‐de‐siècle degeneration theory. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Vol. 14 ...