The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.
"Theodore Zeldin" is an Oxford scholar and thinker whose books have searched for answers to three questions.
Acceptance Speech on being made professor honoris causa of HEC Business School http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K70h1ErH9tg Where can a person look to find more inspiring ways of spending each day and each year? What ambitions remain unexplored, beyond happiness, prosperity, faith, love, technology or therapy? What role could there be for individuals with independent minds, or who feel isolated or different, or misfits?
http://as-valued.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/theodore-zeldin-on-pont-de-leurope.html Each of Zeldin’s books illuminates from a different angle what people can do today that they could not in previous centuries.
Interview for the Danube Foundation of Istanbul
http://www.oxfordmuse.com/?q=theodore-zeldin-welcome;
www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/community/people/theodore-zeldin
More Theodore Zeldin on Wikipedia.Work-life balance is not a solution, because it does not prevent work from continuing to be oppressive.
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