Word: menials
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Spitzer took it to heart. While still an undergraduate at Princeton, he took off for the South one summer to work at menial jobs. He hit the day-labor agencies at dawn and took whatever was available--stacking fiber-glass insulation at a warehouse, operating a jackhammer, cleaning up a sewage overflow at a hotel. He also worked that summer as a migrant laborer in upstate New York, side by side with Mexicans picking tomatoes. "I'd had a comfortable upbringing," says Spitzer, "so I wanted to experience harder work, to see the world from a different perspective...
...literature, direction, sound, art and design explained the divergence between subject matter and aesthetics for the Fifth and Sixth Generations. Because the former endured the worst excesses of the Cultural Revolution (two of the deans were themselves exiled for a time in Inner Mongolia and forced to perform menial labor), his films invariably focus on the prevalent socio-economic problems of the day, with a sympathetic bias towards the experience of minority nationalities. On the other hand, having grown up amid rapid economic progress and material comfort in burgeoning regional cities, the Sixth Generation filmmakers concern themselves mainly with...
...many student interns, from veteran campaigners to political rookies, the work of a political campaign involves long hours and often menial tasks...
...this disorder since I was a child, and my life has been hell, even with four years of college. Many people who are bipolar live badly, without much money or any kind of career. We are mostly members of the underclass, tenants of trailer parks and people who do menial jobs. It is not easy. We are not, like bipolar author Lizzie Simon, part of the middle class. Sorry, but the happy ending she wrote about is simply not true for most of us. Manic-depressive illness usually ends badly. ALBERT BARR Seneca...
...cosmos, seems grossly alien in Hilary's. She lives in a pale-yellow house a block from the ocean in Avon-by-the-Sea, N.J. The tiny town is a summer beach destination--Ginny met George on the boardwalk when she was just 17 and both were working menial hotel jobs--with a year-round population of slightly more than 2,000. Yet even in the off-season Avon retains a certain lazy, carefree air. Sweeping front porches serve as social hubs. Traffic grinds to a halt so that ducks can meander across the street. Underemployed policemen ride around...