They had become a superior, leisured caste.

It is a frightful myth that the love of beauty is only to be found in leisured, educated people.

The leisured class may produce great advances in the arts, or it may fritter away its time.

1893, John Davidson, “St Valentine’s Eve” in Fleet Street Eclogues, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, p. 20,
And brooding thus on my ephemeral flowers
That smoulder in the wilderness, I thought,
By envy sore distraught,
Of amaranths that burn in lordly bowers,
Of men divinely blessed with leisured hours,

Everything that Brinnin writes about is defunct. The big liners were killed, of course, by the jet plane, a device that condensed the leisured misery of a five-day crossing into seven hours of concentrated nullity or wretchedness.

While his career spanned a time when quintessential New York street photography was defined as swift, sharp and precise, Leiter’s leisured, impressionist style went against the grain.

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