Word: cobb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blatant social paradoxes, (Why should a master pipefitter call the mediocre school teacher next door "Mr." while the teacher calls him by his first name?), but more often the wounds are expressed by workers in ways so fundamental to their thinking that they themselves do not notice. Sennett and Cobb relate the example of a plumber working on a construction job who would not describe his accomplishment in the first person. When he found that the plans for a major plumbing installation were clearly faulty (though they had been made by a man with far greater income and status than...
RICHARD SENNETT and Jonathan Cobb probe more directly into the disguised mechanisms by which workers reconcile themselves to their status. They delve into societal dictates on people's modes of thought, which are often far more effective and less brutally obvious ways of keeping people in their place than sheer economic power. The long-term interviews Sennett and Cobb conducted in ethnic neighborhoods in Boston and with Bostonians who had moved to the suburbs showed most people had both a complacent and a wounded side that in some ways are comparable to the two styles of life which Howell describes...
...loss of "I"--something Sennett and Cobb found again and again--occurs in a world where things happen to people instead of the other way around, where all the important choices and opportunities are predetermined. Even when people began to talk about how little they felt "on top of things" their feelings would immediately be counter-balanced by the sources of their conservatism--by the modicum of security and the dreams that held together Howell's "settled" families and from which the "hard living" families had found the only immediately realizeable escape...
...Dancing has two bright points, which only appear infrequently. One is Lee J. Cobb, who plays the Wells Fargo man in charge of the pursuing posse. Cobb is refreshingly authentic in his role, and his easygoing pragmatism seems to put the film in proper perspective. "A woman once left me," Cobb advises Miles' jealous husband. "I mailed her a suitcase." Cat Dancing's other strong point, its fine theme music, begins and ends the film...
...night of Whiting's death, Miles testified, she went to dinner in nearby Ajo, with other members of the company. Bored with the party, Miles persuaded Actor Lee J. Cobb to leave with her. After some time at a tavern, she stopped at Reynolds' room, then returned to her own at 3 a.m. There Whiting came out from behind a clothes rack and "got ahold of me and began throwing me about the room," hitting her on the face and head. Her screams woke Janie Evans, the nanny for her five-year-old son Thomas, in the next...