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Frenzied? Identifying America’s Secret Disgrace: Leisure
In the notoriously harried ’90s, people who have time for little else somehow find a moment to complain about how little time they’ve got. A new Yankelovich poll puts 41 percent of the adult population into the “time-frenzied” category. Amid such laments, people who aren’t chronically pressed for time must wonder if life is passing them by. Indeed, they must wonder if they’re out-and-out losers, on a par with Seinfeld’s George Costanza as he snoozes under his desk.