Word: meniality
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...returnees from abroad and the U.S. underground will have to serve the full two years in low-paying public-service jobs. Ford's proclamation requires that the jobs be in fields that "promote the national health, safety or interest"-in hospitals, forests, schools and public institutions, usually as menial laborers...
...marriage and funeral rites were performed, and cultural traditions were renewed. But it was a bleak existence for the prisoners, many of whom had previously enjoyed middle-class comfort. Professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, were paid $19 a month for serving fellow inmates; laborers received $12 to do menial work. Some residents took up sewing, flower arranging, making jewelry from sea shells-all to ward off the feeling of confinement. It was hardly a Nazi-style concentration camp, but armed guards and barbed wire were continual reminders of freedom denied...
...here Coleman's objective analysis ends. Rarely does he show a recognition that permanently performing a menial role crushes the working man's dignity in support of the upper class. Rather, any larger sense of the working man's plight is obfuscated by Coleman's personal search--for the lost muscles in his back, for the simple and direct language he knows he will find in the ditch. So he settles into comfortable generalizations, of the meaningless sophistication of white-collar workers who perform interesting tasks and the rude but honest manners of blue-collar workers who execute monotonous manual...
Palmer House: "I don't enjoy waiting on my peers. I feel that if I'm gonna occupy a position that's menial, let it be to some one perhaps a cut above...
...city boy when she suddenly appears as she really is: a pathetic pauper, drunk and asking for more, begging for work and selling herself to Hari. To him, the ambiguous transaction is neither prostitution nor charity but a means of keeping her from having to demean herself by doing menial work. Miss India is one of most sensitively handled characters in all neo-realistic cinema, skillfully acted by an amateur, and skillfully directed...