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...public assistance or dependence on our children. At Ernie's age, it will be difficult to find work; his knees are worn out, too; but his Social Security of $296 monthly will help. I was able to get work at a nearby hospital at $4.10 hourly as a ward clerk -- completely out of my past experience of bookkeeping and accounting but it will pay routine bills, if we are very, very frugal...
...title Demon Box refers to Physicist James Clerk Maxwell's colorful explanation of perpetual motion. In the book Maxwell's model is used by a California therapy guru, fictionalized as Dr. Klaus Woofner, to explain human behavior. Kesey the globe trotter and spiritual joker seems entranced. But Kesey the planter of corn and milker of cows presents Woofner as another psycho-alchemist trying to turn a metaphor into a 14-karat gimmick. The point is made admiringly by one skilled fancifier to another. After all, the charlatan, like the artist, exploits illusion and a sense of mystery. Behind the plow...
After beginning his career as a clerk under the preeminent judges, Augustus and Leonard Hand, Wyzanski became a member of the "brain trust" of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and successfully argued several significant cases on New Deal legislation before the Supreme Court. Known as the "infant prodigy" of Roosevelt's coterie, Wyzanski served in the New Deal Administration from 1933 until 1937, helping draft the Social Security Act and numerous tax laws...
Wyzanski was also an avid book collector, amassing what former clerk Stephen R. Latham '82 called "a house filled with wall-to-wall books." Associates praised Wyzanski's dedication to legal scholarship, noting that he wrote his own opinions--an increasingly uncommon practice...
...best advice to people is if they don't have tickets, then just go to the symposia they want to attend and wait," said Sarah Laskin '89, a ticket clerk...