. >> this piece screamed litman to me. this is the drudgery of housework and wanting to make it worthwhile i guess. i could see that it would get boring after a while. so you want to apply the science to make it feel like you are doing something -- i'm not saying housework is not an important thing to be doing. but i could see it being a very unfulfilling thing to women so they want to apply a scientific process. >> she uses the word something about drudgery in here. so she's admitting in a way that the beacher sisters would not have. some of this work is just tedious work. right? so why not put all this energy into speeding it up, cutting out steps? if the dishes can be in the drain board and wash them with hot water, they will air dry. you don't need to wipe them down with a cloth of questionable clenlyness. right there, the ways to systematize and a kind of pleasure for its own sake. but because it gets you more time to do other things. notice in her schedule there's a -- every other week club date. she's has these soci

. >> this piece screamed litman to me.s is the drudgery of housework and wanting to make it worthwhile i guess. i could see that it would get boring after a while. so you want to apply the science to make it feel like you are doing something -- i'm not saying housework is not an important thing to be doing. but i could see it being a very unfulfilling thing to women so they want to apply a scientific process. >> she uses the word something about drudgery in here. so she's admitting in a way that the beacher sisters would not have. some of this work is just tedious work. right? so why not put all this energy into speeding it up, cutting out steps? if the dishes can be in the drain board and wash them with hot water, they will air dry. you don't need to wipe them down with a cloth of questionable clenlyness. right there, the ways to systematize and a kind of pleasure for its own sake. but because it gets you more time to do other things. notice in her schedule there's a -- every other week club date. she's has these social a

think aboutbo litman, the only loyalty should be to going forward, right?s all marks the modernist sort of thinkers, right? they're after the new, the novel, the better way to do things. that had been done from as they t put it time immemorial. let me just show you really quickly, these are a couple of of the illustrations that actually appeared in frederick's book,┘ f1 o the wellch ordered kitchen. this one -- it always makes me eed think i need to go back into my kitche own kitchen and redesign right? everything, right? on the right or the left. ht you see those pathways. think of time motion studies, right? this is the badly ground kitchen gro equipment. so that youup walk -- this messy the zigzag from the serving table to the kitchen cabinet to the and so forth. here's thegr efficient grouping.e preparing route is "a," clearing ri route is "b." you get the clean motion of how is work is supposed to be done. all right. let's talk about maybe an even more radical5 john b. watson actually began his graduate education in philosophy. with none other than joh

tom litman told the story at ben's retirement of how his secretary approached him as she was typing oneers with a copy editing question. is dick head one word or two? ben was immensely funny with a pure zest for life. ben would make wise cracks trade insults and gossip about washington. if you were too sent mental in making a story pitch, ben would play an imaginary violin. if you winter on too long, ben would roll his eyes or put his hands to his throat in a choking motion. if you didn't have the story he told you to go get it. being an editor is often mundane, exhausting work. ben made it seem fun. cool even. no wonder we all tried so desperately to be like him. ben was a tough man who hated lies -- he could be gentle and protective. many of us remember getting in trouble, making mistake or being under public attack and having ben stride across the newsroom put his arm around us, say something obscene and we knew instantly that everything would be fine. knowing ben's passion for all things fresh, sally organized his 90th birthday. during his birthday dinner, ben keeled over and we all