European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes tuesday september 16, 1980 � � m n moderns could learn much from Crusoe when Robinson Crusoe washed up on that Island the first thing he did was cry. The Sec Ond thing he did was put himself on a schedule. Free Wheeling moderns with their swinging Laid Back lifestyles could learn a lot from Rob Inson Crusoe. He knew Idle hands Are the Devil s he knew a Day without or Der was chaos. Nobody had to Tell him thai the balanced systematic life was the real Good life. In recent years however we May have los the Knack of never being at Loose ends. Rules Are out of fashion these Days. People Don t have a regular time for doing things. Our grandparents had the Day Down Pat and no two ways about it. They knew what they were going to be doing at 10, Al 2, at 6. They ate breakfast together dinner together supper together. They did the Wash on monday the dusting on tuesday the bathrooms on Friday and the Lawn on saturday. On sunday they went to the eleven o clock service came Home to a big Din Ner of pot roast and mashed potatoes took afternoon naps went visiting at four and at leftovers for supper. The modern tendency is to scoff at the or Derly life. It is so Middle class so repressed so unimaginative. We Are trying frantically to be creative at All times in All things. We Are Horri fied at the thought of being old fashioned. We wrack our brains trying to figure out How to jazz up our lives. The effect of this disgust with Dull routine is a colossal confusion about what s important and what in t. We try to turn our jobs into giant Coffee Breaks and play periods. We de Mand Comfort around the office Complete with piped in music brightly coloured furnishings Jungles of plants and impressionistic paintings. We make things look so Good that not a speck of work goes on. In fact it anybody shows signs of working hard we Tell her to slow Down and take it easy. After playing All Day we go Home with attache cases full of papers and turn the dining room table into a desk. Supper is catch As catch can because the folks arc working late and can t be disturbed. People eat standing up or lying Down or in front of the to. We think so Little of what goes on around the House the Center of non existence where things Don t really count that we fill up our evening hours with meetings More paperwork visits to health spas or sad Little strolls through shopping malls. The business world accommodates us in our passion for limitless disorder. The a and p is open Twenty four hours a Day 365 Days a year. The aisles fill up at All hours of the Day and night. We run to the store in fits and starts. We re dismayed if we can t get a loaf of bread or a bag of m and m s at two o clock in the morning. We never Slop. America is on Mil Lions of different shifts. There is no Day of rest. And yet somehow there is no real work accomplished. The Waffle House lights bum All night Long. The Beta Max mimics eternity. Family routines Are non existent. The Chil Dren arc just As Likely to be out on a school night As on any other night. Since people slopped going to synagogue or Church the big sunday dinner has vanished leaving nothing but a sweaty egg my muffin in its place. Parents sleep late. Children watch cartoons foraging All morning for potato chips and oreos for breakfast. The smell of perked Coffee is gone. Our Modem theory is that it does t matter How or when you do something just so Long As the Job eventually gets done. Sometimes we Don t care whether the jobs gets done at All just As Long As nobody notices we Haven t done it. Process is therefore trivialized end shoddy Ness ensues. Nobody expects you to behave any certain Way at any certain time. Nobody cares what you Wear. Nobody has a philosophy. No body makes any demands at ail except in some sort of tentative apologetic Way. Ail life is just an afterthought. Crusoe did t Start feeling better about be ing stranded on his Island until he got the Lay of the land established his Camp checked his supplies planted his Corn made his Calendar started his diary and had his daily devotional. He did t think it was weak Dull or silly to rely on a routine. He did t try any fancy Huff like eating breakfast at noon skipping lunch and just having Hor d oeuvres and Bourbon for supper. He did t think it terribly Clever to go nude and Plant his crops in crazy designs rather than straight rows. He did t play it by ear wait and see take it easy skip it for now put it off until tomorrow or wait until the spirit moved him. He knew work was work play was play and meditation was meditation. He did what he was supposed to do Eucly the Way he was supposed to do it and life took care of itself. Fast new French train to enter service in 1981 Chambery. France a France Snew High Speed train will begin its three hour run Between Paris and Geneva in october 1981, the regional director of French railways said. In an interview he said operation was two years ahead of schedule because of Early deliveries of the sophisticated trains. A special track is being built for the trains which will be too fast for the existing lines he added. 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