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...unfreedom is, for many people, the price of economic survival. At best this is deeply confusing. In school we're taught that liberty is more precious than life itself--then we're expected to go out and sell that liberty, in eight-hour chunks, in exchange for a livelihood. But if you'd sell your freedom of speech for a few dollars an hour, what else would you sell? Think where we'd be now, as a nation, if Patrick Henry had said, "Give me liberty or give me, uh, how about a few hundred pounds sterling...
Consider, for example, a husband who felt that his wife was his "possession" given that his efforts paid for her livelihood: her food, rent, health care and other necessities. Today, if he took it into his head to physically reprimand her "for her own good," and claimed it was necessary and none of anyone else's business, there would probably be much more of an uproar than if it were his child. Why is that? Perhaps because children do not have the same voice, socially or legally, that adults do, despite the similarity of their situations with regard to their...
...Company premiered. Anyone Can Whistle and the lyrics for Gypsy and West Side Story were behind him; A Little Night Music and Follies were soon to come. This revival provides a useful vantage for surveying the second half of a venturesome, glittering career. Among those American artists today whose livelihood is linked to words and wordplay, Sondheim holds a unique preeminence. There's no contemporary novelist, poet or essayist who is so indisputably at the top of his or her field as Sondheim is of his. As a song lyricist, he has no plausible peer...
...point, he sought to dilute the committee's charges. "I am accused of kissing women," he said. "Not drugging, not robbing. Kissing." That in vited McConnell to respond, "These were not merely stolen kisses" but rather "physical coercion" directed primarily at women who depended on Packwood for their livelihood. Packwood's eleventh-hour demand for public hearings also earned the contempt of the panel, which noted he had waived his right to request a public airing and opposed Boxer's campaign to force the hearings. "The one who deliberately abused the process now wants to manipulate it to his advantage...
Surely they could muster some of that fervor to save the game that is their livelihood...