Sunday, April 8, 2018

Distracted Mother Cuts up Food of Adult Dinner Companion


Phillip Brown & Hugh Lauder, Capitalism and Social Progress (New York: Palgrave, 2001), 51. “It was in the midst of a particularly witty piece of conversation that she suddenly realized that she had just leant across and cut her companion’s dinner up into small pieces.” [I can’t access the footnoted reference, but I assume it is Jan Pahl and Raymond Pahl, Managers and Their Wives: A Study of Career and Family Relationships in the Middle Class (London: Allen Lane, 1971).]