Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the scheme brings joy to the Puritans, it has in it some note of gladness for the Cavaliers. The smut-hound may well lick his lips in anticipation; at last his labors of search are ended. With the new committee to help him he no longer has to read one hundred pages of "nice" literature to find one that is "not so nice." Possessed of one of the Committee's reports, he has his filth carefully listed with a specific statement as to why each book should not lie on the parlor table; he has but to select...
...Elihu Root calls attention to the widespread misuse of leisure, particularly among those who have recently acquired it. In a world in which the workman no longer has the joy of "perfecting his works" but merely the delight of pulling a lever 897 times an hour, he must save his soul in his leisure time if he is to save it at all. His difficulty at present is that he would rather lose his soul than his spare time. And Mr. Root says he can't have both...
...Eliot cannot mean to be taken literally when he says, "He (the labor union man) still believes that there is no such thing as joy in work". Labor union men, like all other men, find joy in some forms of work, in creative work, in work that is the free expression of one's self. But labor union men, like all other men can never find joy in the dreadful monotony and machine-character of industry, in being "Nut 39" or "Nut 15" (expressive names attached to hundreds of laborers in Ford's factories in Detroit...
...labor troubles will never be solved by pouring joy over modern industry. The reasons are these (1) There isn't and can't be any joy in modern industry as it is now conducted. Modern industry is antagonistic to human nature. (2) The seat of our labor troubles lies deeper than the neglect of the laborer to find joy in his work...
...most effective way of dealing with labor troubles is not to fear them or exhort the laborers to find joy in their work; but to regard them as symptomatic of grave psychological malad justments in our politico economic or dear, and then remove the causes of mal adjustment. CHAIF ANRGOPSKY '23 March...