Word: chores
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...should try to undo, in the hour and a half I had, the things that had been done to them in their short lives on Long Island. It would be wonderful if I could only soil them a bit, but my messianic pretensions soon gave way to the simpler chore of taking apart a poem for them...
...that is all, and life goes on its usual way; someone now and then refers to art and artists, but there it ends." Poets would like to emulate the Investigations of Kafka's dogs, or even become fish, as Virgil Thompson has suggested; for they have always found the chore of living among the forms of possibility a tedious one, and most of them have chosen to "climb into a walled garden," as Robert Bly has pointed out. "They imagine the garden as poetry's world...
...Black Is, a booklet of black-humored cartoons by Turner Brown Jr. and Illustrator Ann Weisman, being black is "when you get patronized by everybody downtown-and you don't' even own a store." Shopping is a more than ordinary chore. In black neighborhoods, shoppers run into "the color tax": in other words, inflated prices charged by neighborhood merchants for inferior products. Sometimes the markup runs as high as 400%. Ghetto blacks, cut off from normal credit sources, are particularly vulnerable to such price gouging...
...haggling-the merchant quotes you a price twice as high as he expects to get, you feign shock and make a counter-offer of two-thirds what you're willing to pay, and you whittle each other to the appropriate price. It can be a sport or a chore, depending on the wit and passion of the shopkeeper ("Ah! $5 for hand-made, fine hand-crafted, really real peasant blanket? The joke of my life...
...Andy Huff and Baumgart were the final individual winners as Harvard completed its chore...