Word: collars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miller himself indeed worked as a proofreader ("a white-collar coolie") for the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune, was attached to a little magazine, not transition but Booster, and danced not the Charleston but a fandango along the gutters, in the brothels, bistros and mansards of Montparnasse. In telling about it all. he establishes the hardly original thesis that being broke is very hard work and that panhandling-working as cut-rate gigolo, or becoming valet-pimp to a parsimonious Parsee-can involve more shame and chicanery than the whole career of a Babbitt or a Cash McCall...
...employment industries as automaking and steel, automation and technological improvements permit more production with fewer men. Other industries, such as mining, transportation and textiles, which once employed great numbers of workers, have fallen into a relentless, long-term decline. Employment has been growing in the service trades, in white-collar jobs, in finance, insurance, real estate and state and local government. But many who lost out in the factory have been unable or unwilling to make the switchover. The main groups caught in this "hard core" unemployment...
...newspapers. As he told it, his plight was that female parishioners continually threw themselves at him. Said Thomas: "When I look back upon my years as a minister of the Gospel, I am by no means cast down by the knowledge that I shall never again wear the clerical collar. Truth to tell, I am a little surprised that I should have worn it so long, in the face of the martyrdom I have suffered at the hands of women in my various flocks...
Anxiety drives them to sedatives, therapy, and unseemly panting after the diploma that wins white-collar status. "The type who browses intelligently is unknown here," complains one don. "If you suggest that they make up their own minds," says Novelist Amis, "they feel they're being cheated. We are here to tell them what to think, not to show them how to think, as at Oxbridge...
...Joyce, once licked Bridge Expert Charles Goren. Nowadays his playtime is limited. He is the Vatican's permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, and this year's president of the Association of American Colleges, where his Roman collar no longer stamps him as an outsider...