Bread Givers

Givers and Not Getters

a chain of events which leads to the disintegration of the personality and ultimately to the hospital. The percentage of the population who will spend some part of their lives in a mental hospital is increasing, and 3 large proportion of these people are elderly. Senile dementia, it is thought* is accelerated by loneliness. A harsh winter makes already existing problems more imminent. Death amo...

Standard Bread

Sir,?I was glad to see the letter on this subject from " B. A. C." in your last issue, together with your editorial approval of it. Can nothing be done to indfi.ee bakers to give us really palatable and nutritious bread ? No doubt they will say, as you do, that their customers love to have ill-baked, tasteless bread. But once upon a time j)eople were content with smelly omnibuses carpeted with ...

In the company of givers and takers.

Employees make decisions every day about whether to contribute to others--and their willingness to help is crucial to group and organizational effectiveness. But in a competitive, often zero-sum, world of work, generosity can be a dangerous path. How can leaders foster it without cutting into productivity, undermining fairness, and allowing employees to become doormats? The key, explains Wharto...

Bread and Circuses

In the past, too little thought has been given to the relationship of culture to play. That the forms of play have varied with different cultural epochs is often forgotten; even more rarely mentioned is the idea that culture arises in the form of play, and play needs to be born. This is the main thesis of Professor Huizinga's important and absorbing book, Homo Ludens.1 He argues that culture is...

Bread and Dirt