Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Czechoslovakia's Stalin era, has "consolidated" the Communist Party, cutting back its membership by almost one-half, to a total of 1,000,000. Communists thus expelled have usually lost their jobs, together with their party cards. Former Party Chief Alexander Dubček now works as a clerk in the Slovak forestry department, but he earns more than twice as much as hundreds of thousands of minor officials who were ousted with him. Dubček recently wrote to a friend: "If I am getting paid for what I know about this job, then 3,200 crowns [about...
...story revolves around the family, the drabness of their bourgeois lives, their struggles to make a respectable living, whether as doctor, hairdresser, or clerk. But it is essentially a love story. It celebrates the ever-deepening love of two old people, who have shared sorrow and happiness, and now resign themselves to old age and death, in a manner so dignified that it bespeaks a stoic philosophy...
...asserts: "There is so much fraud in welfare and no incentive to get a job. Welfare needs cutting down, but McGovern seems to want to add to it. Paying for it will come out of the pockets of working people." In Miami, Leonard Lang, a student and part-time clerk says: "I'd very much like to know what happens to the one-third of my paycheck that's taken in taxes every week. Just for once, people want to feel that Uncle Sam is taking his hand out of their pockets...
...only to work. As Albert Camus put it: "Without work all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies." It will be a long while, if ever, before men figure out ways to make the work of, say, a punch-press operator or a file clerk soul-enriching. While waiting for that millennium-which may require entirely new forms of work -bosses who expect loyalty from their employees should try to satisfy their demands for more freedom, more feeling of participation and personal responsibility, and more sense of accomplishment...
...object of this collective condemnation is the venerable U.S. political practice of making every candidate for public office, from President down to town clerk, depend upon voluntary contributions to get elected. Often vilified but never seriously challenged, the system embarrasses and compromises both donor and candidate, openly invites corruption, and suggests to an increasingly cynical public that favors can be bought. Irrational and poorly regulated, the giving and getting are often done through sham committees, so as to preserve anonymity or evade ill-conceived laws. Much of this activity is furtive, although this year everyone seems to be talking more...