The word gymnasium is derived from gumnazo, meaning exercise, and gumnos, meaning naked or loin-clothed. The gymnasia were the ancient Greek equivalent of a sports centre, and several were located ...

Arthur Wynne, the son of the editor of the local Liverpool Mercury, had emigrated to America aged 19 and by 1913 was editing ...

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Now it's scary for a person to publish a few books that don't make money because they could be "voluntarily leisured," a term we discuss in Spinglish. Weinstein: It's odd, because in the late ...

Rather, he is learning how to become a leisured gentleman so he will be able to have conversations on a number of topics with other young members of society. Pip does not object and interestingly ...

the parents clinging to an old ideal of the leisured ornamental life, the sons drawn by a new ideal of useful prestige. When the new aristocracy of vigor has supplanted the old aristocracy of ...

Science and Gender in the Leisured Home (Ashgate, 2000; Routledge, 2016). Along with publishing articles in top journals, she has edited two collections of essays: "The Figure of Music in ...