Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thelma Massey, for instance, one of the main checkers in Lowell House, has been at Harvard for 13 years and says she hasn't regretted a day of it. Born and raised in this area, Thelma had been a cook her entire life. She recalls all too well the days she spent behind a door in a roadside cafe marked "employees only," hovering over a hot stove, bustling to prepare food for impatient customers. "When you're cooking you have someone rush in who wants a steak in maybe ten minutes, and the most you can finish...
...matter of integrity for the workers. He explained at the time of the strike that maintenance workers such as Harvards B&G employees undergo years of careful training and apprenticeship to learn their particular craft, and resent having to perform jobs they feel they are unsuited for. "The main issue was reclassification, an issue that had to come to a head--and we weren't getting anywhere," Costello said...
...games was a constant source of frustration. Knowing that I possessed the ability to make a substantial contribution added a touch of bitterness. Seeing several teammates faced with similar situations caused me to wonder what determined who played during games, because ability did not always appear to be the main factor...
...Bolster's main interests was the Radcliffe News, a weekly news bulletin--usually a four-pager--featuring reviews of local plays or concerts. "Suddenly, someone thought we should have a daily. And for a while we had the only one of its kind in the country. However, it only lasted about a year. We couldn't get enough advertising to keep a daily going and it really wasn't a literary thing at all," she remembers...
...main difficulties with Maude Pratt is that she is more convincing as a metaphor than as a character. She is full of biting, often cranky opinions about fame and the effects of patronage on artists. This contrasts with her humid, romantic maunderings on art and incest. It is almost as if Author Theroux were suggesting that Maude's lust for her brother was indistinguishable from her aloof and aristocratic aesthetic...