Word: collared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wilson has spent most of his life in Johnstown, New York, an ethnic blue-collar town of 9,000 people, located about 45 miles northwest of Albany. The Wilsons live outside the town in a rural house. Behind their house is a cow farm; to the left, a horse farm...
That is not the way it worked out. In 1962 Sue and Les had a son Dan, and a little later moved to the blue-collar suburb of Clawson, Michigan. To make ends meet, Les worked 12 to 16 hours a day. Every morning Sue would meet friends for breakfast at the Kresge coffee shop nearby, then set out on her route as an Avon Lady. Since her eyesight prevented her from getting a driver's license, she rode a little Amigo scooter. "We were always telling her, 'God, would you slow that thing down?' " says Mary. Sue's customers...
America's ruminations about women and work are so politically loaded these days -- there are breakthroughs and backlashes, mommy tracks and mommy wars, glass ceilings and pink-collar ghettos -- that it is often hard to get at the truth. Consider the mixed message from Women and the Work/Family Dilemma by Deborah Swiss and Judith Walker, a much touted book to be published this month. Based on a survey of 902 female graduates of Harvard's law, medical and business schools, the book makes the woman-and-work story more complicated than ever -- if only by suggesting that on this subject...
...five new novels, each from an acknowledged master of his or her own niche. One is really a business novel; another ruminates on the inescapable history of the American South; a third is a courtroom thriller; a fourth is a classical puzzle mystery; and the last celebrates the blue-collar work ethic among police...
...complaints are hardly limited to afterhours care. After James N. Miller '95 broke his collar bone, he wanted to see a doctor to follow- up the emergency room care...