Word: dig
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These people were chips from the national foundation, the part of the country that goes on by itself no matter who is President. They don't dig ditches or conceive the New Economics. They run the firms that build industrial plants and houses; they sell refrigerators, play pianos, bury the dead and straighten teeth...
...agency's Democratic-appointed leaders-notably Education Director Herbert McArthur, former associate dean of arts and sciences at the University of Vermont-tried to make the endowment a "risk-taking agency." They warmly supported such projects as a study of 19th century comic strips and an archaeological dig by elementary students in New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto. Says McArthur: "The endowment must be committed to promoting change and experimentation. It must demonstrate that the liberal arts are important to urban people...
Such an approach allows Empire State to enroll students like Jim Walsh, 24, who hates classrooms and is earning degree credits by working at an Indian archaeological dig near Saratoga; Steve Hasso, 17, who is studying literature, history and political science to supplement his senior year in high school; and Mary Ellen Musgrave, 28, who found nursing so intellectually unchallenging that she is now studying philosophy, art and music, and will receive her bachelor's degree next month. Perhaps more typical is Auto Worker Cardinal, who wants to "understand what it is that makes our lives miserable as workers...
...Aristion's work, and he thinks that the statue of the youth may also be carved by him. Aristion was a master artisan, known from old writing to have lived on the Aegean island of Paros about the third quarter of the 6th century B.C. Until the new dig, it had been believed that the only remnants of his work were four statueless marble bases bearing his imprimatur. Now that Mastrokostas has been able to study Aristion's style, he believes he may be able to identify other works of his among the many still unidentified masterpieces...
Manley has set himself no less a task than that of freeing his countrymen from the colonial assumption that "somebody else is going to do it all for me." When workmen in Kingston recently balked at cleaning drainage ditches, Manley himself took up a shovel and began to dig. "All sorts of people who had refused to work later joined me," he recalled. "But if I had gone down in jacket and tie and made a great speech about the dignity of labor, they would have said: 'That's for the birds,' and they would have been...