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...seemingly endless number of technicians, scientists and intellectuals "sent down to the country" during the Cultural Revolution, Zhao raised hogs, pruned weeds, and built a lot of houses. He laughs as he stands over the gas stove in his Cambridge apartment, saying that he learned to cook on the farm, where he stoked the fire for 150 people. He talks wistfully about the "great deal of unnecessary cruelty," the "widespread violence," about people whose hands were tied behind their backs and, like dogs, were forced to eat steamed bread from the floor-or eat nothing at all. "The Red Guards...
...jobs for workers to be retrained for." That is probably an exaggeration, but Charles Cook, president of the United Auto Workers Local 7, which represents K-car workers at Chrysler's Jefferson plant, is equally suspicious. Says he: "Our workers are not worried now about robots taking their jobs, but once the company gets more of those goddam things working, we'll have problems...
Already there are a few rumblings. Says Russ Cook, U.A.W. district committeeman at GM's Buick plant in Flint: "If we don't get smarter and start combatting the machines, we will be cannibalizing ourselves and competing against one another for jobs." Adds Larry Jones, a Chrysler metal-shop worker: "They say they are only going to put robots on boring jobs. But in an auto plant, all the jobs are boring jobs...
...child knows the elements of survival: he must eat, drink and reproduce. His early life is filled with the imposition of rituals: toilet training, religious instruction, social communication and compromise. By the time he is an adult, he knows most of the games people play: how to dress and cook, shake hands, argue with a colleague, plead with a lover, break things, break up, make up, attack, escape or withdraw. In each "free" action, he is replaying the history of the race as stage-managed by an eons-old brain that wants simply to survive and conquer...
...Reilly's wittiest and most perceptive essays and articles about being feminist in a man's world, about her evolution from a '50s "girl" who said she was going to Radcliffe to become a better wife and mother to a '70s successful professional who has trained her family to cook and clean while she types...