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...call it 'rocking the blues' years ago when I was a kid...that's what he's doing now ... rock and roll is a steal from the old, original blues." The blues, however, didn't pay as well as rock. Broonzy, late in his career, took a job as janitor at Iowa State College at Ames to make ends meet. You can bet Clapton, once he made it big, never had to unplug toilets between gigs...
...English at Rutgers. His father stayed in the United States, taking a job as a dishwasher at a Howard Johnson’s just off the New Jersey Turnpike. Meanwhile, amidst the political upheaval in Czechoslovakia, his uncle was thrown into work camp, and his grandfather was made a janitor...
...capacity to feel another’s suffering as one’s own. In a startlingly divided nation and a broken world, compassion forms the basis for some kind of unity. It means that I, bleary-eyed from studying for exams, have something in common with the underpaid janitor I step past on the way to the dining hall, who is bleary-eyed from working two jobs to support his family. It also means that I have something in common with the Iranian student, also exhausted from preparing for exams, but with more on her mind than tests because...
...graduate who has been out of college forty years will tell you there was far more intoxication among students in his day than now. The college comic of forty years ago was thrust under the door in the darkness of the night and burned by the janitor in the morning. The older generation was not angelic, but it rigorously suppressed or carefully concealed conditions which were not sanctioned by its code. Its goodness consisted largely in restraint and repression...
Bartley said that the University should have instead combined the two shifts so a janitor could work for eight hours without traveling between different jobs...