Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Studs Terkel is a squat, 61-year-old man who has spent the past three years interviewing Americans about their jobs. He began in Chicago, where he is the host of a daily radio program. There he interviewed an aging waitress, a receptionist, a barber. In Indiana, he talked with a strip miner. In Kentucky, a farmer. In Lordstown, Ohio, a union leader at the General Motors assembly plant...
...book author's obligatory plug-it and-run tour. Such promotional chores are part of his job, part of what he does all day now. But he would rather stay in Chicago, and he plans to cut the trip short, exercising a freedom of choice that the waitress, barber, and strip miner in his book (all pseudononymous characters) would probably envy...
Russell Parker and his children live above their profitless one-throne barber shop. A worn-out, ex-vaudeville dancer, he passes the days playing checkers -- his ceremony with his old friend, Mr. Jenkins; Russell could never cut hair as well as he could dance. His daughter Adele supports the family by working at the dead-end Motor Vehicles job. Disgusted by the hard work that brought only physical and emotional exhaustion to the rest of the family, Russell's two sons decide to make their way in the world by converting the shop into a bootlegging joint. Pop goes along...
Luken's campaign target was the Nixon Administration, and his theme was a sophisticated version of "Send Washington a message." At supermarkets, barber shops and factory gates, he inveighed against food and oil prices as examples of "corporate greed" and declared that "a vote for me is a vote against 'big money' politics." In sharp contrast, Gradison's early campaign was poorly organized and lackluster, depending too often on philosophical position papers and rambling speeches on subjects like "the status of ethics in politics." Often he seemed to be skirting the issues. For example, when Luken...
...transfusion of $1 million for general support, which must be matched by private contributions. This is the first time that the Met, the premier American grand opera house, has received a sizable federal grant, though public subsidies are routine in Europe. After announcing the windfall between acts of The Barber of Seville on the Texaco-sponsored weekly Met broadcast, Chapin asked his nationwide audience of opera lovers to chip in, even if it was only $1. Privately he said: "This does not solve the problem. Our current gross deficit is $7 million...