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　　Work and Play

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　　Our everyday existence is divided into two phases,

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　　as distinct as day and night.

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　　We call them work and play.

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　　We work so many hours a day,

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　　and when we have allowed the necessary minimum

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　　for such activities as eating and shopping,

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　　the rest we spend in various activities

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　　which are known as recreations,

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　　an elegant word which disguises the fact

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　　that we usually do not even play in our hours of leisure,

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　　but spend them in various forms of passive enjoyment or entertainment —

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　　not playing football but watching football matches;

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　　not acting, but theatre-going;

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　　not walking, but riding in a motor coach.

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　　Therefore we need to define clearly the difference

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　　not only between work and play but,

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　　equally, between active play and passive entertainment.

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　　It is, I suppose,

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　　the decline of active play —

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　　of amateur sport —

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　　and the enormous growth of purely receptive entertainment

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　　which has given rise to a sociological interest in the problem.

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　　If the greater part of the population,

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　　instead of indulging in sport,

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　　spend their hours of leisure “viewing” television programmes,

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　　there will inevitably be a decline in health and physique.

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　　And in addition, there will be a psychological problem,

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　　for we have yet to trace the mental and moral consequences

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　　of a prolonged diet of sentimental

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　　or sensational spectacles on the screen.

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　　There is, if we are optimistic,

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　　the possibility that the diet is too thin

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　　and not nourishing enough to have much permanent effect on anybody.

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　　Nine films out of ten seem to leave absolutely no impression on the mind

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　　or imagination of those who see them:

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　　few people can give a coherent account of the film

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　　they saw the week before last,

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　　and at longer intervals they must rely on the management

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　　to see that they do not sit through the same film twice.

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