1. Work therefore is desirable, first and foremost, as a preventive of boredom,

for the boredom that a man feels when he is doing necessary though uninteresting

work is nothing in comparison with the boredom that he feels when he has nothing

to do with his days.
2. The satisfaction of killing time and of affording some outlet, however modest,

for ambition, belongs to most work, and is sufficient to make even a man whose

work is dull happier on the average than a man who has no work at all.
3. He did not have much money, and I do not hold that against him.
4. Seen from this perspective, the “swinging singles” complexes that attracted

so much gossip a few years later are an elaboration on the Sun City concept ---

the clustering together of people of similar ages or outlooks.
5. … and it is also true that some women are capable of feeling an affection for

children not their own almost as strong as that which they could feel for their

own.