Word: kessler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YEARS old and Big Stu Kessler was pitching for Bifulco Farms. Kessler, a giant of a twelve year old, shopped for clothes in the men's section when most of us were only midway through boys'. He was a floppy headed monster on the mound, and when he let the ball go it seemed to be coming straight down...
...holdouts I began to get a different answer. They do not cry because they do not care. Well, at least for a few moments Monday night I saw a big leaguer who still cares, who cares enough to send us all back to dusty fields, to a Kessler's blazing fastballs and to flying clipboards...
...months, a cadre of feminist historians has conducted a running attack on Rosenberg, much of it in academic journals. Historian Alice Kessler-Harris of Hofstra University, who testified against Sears, argues that Rosenberg is not a labor historian, that she overgeneralized, misused the work of other scholars, and in effect supported the idea that women are to blame when they fail to get good jobs. Says Kessler-Harris, author of Out to Work: A History of WageEarning Women in the United States: "The historical record demonstrates that women have taken advantage of opportunity when it has been made available...
...feeling among women workers that good jobs conflict with family ! responsibilities, she maintains, is a rationalization many women have used when they knew the jobs would go to men anyway. Was Rosenberg letting women down by testifying for Sears? "Yes, she was," says Kessler-Harris. "Not because she chose to testify but because the argument she made in court suggested that women's differences could account for their unequal position in the labor force. That argument omits the role of employers in structuring the labor market...
...represented on Broadway by an uneven but crowd-pleasing, hyperkinetic production of Pinter's The Caretaker, directed by John Malkovich, who was a 1985 Oscar nominee for his supporting role in Places in the Heart. Steppenwolf Artistic Director Gary Sinise will leave the cast March 1 to restage Lyle Kessler's Orphans, another past Steppenwolf venture, in London with a cast featuring Albert Finney. Meanwhile, Sinise, Malkovich and Peterson have all formed film- production companies. Also active in Hollywood is the first voice from the new Chicago theater to emerge into national prominence, Playwright David Mamet...