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Following the traditional route of the struggling actor, the crew will support themselves with menial jobs in the day while running the theater at night. McClusky plans on driving a shuttle...
...over-the-road driving jobs. As recently as 1971, only 13 of the company's 1,828 over-the-road drivers were members of minorities. Like almost all trucking companies, T.I.M.E.-DC had two seniority systems, one for over-the-road drivers, the other for workers in more menial jobs. If a warehouse cargo loader became a driver, he had to begin building seniority all over again at his truck terminal. The Government claimed that was unjust, especially for blacks, who would have begun building seniority as drivers had they not been confined to menial jobs in the first...
Though Wright had only a grade-school education and worked at menial jobs, he was constantly under suspicion as an intellectual. "He talks like a book," a comrade complained. Observed Wright: "That was enough to condemn me forever as bourgeois." Disregarding warning signals, he tried to interview party members for a series of articles explaining Communism to the Negro masses. Party suspicion became sulfurous. A comrade pointedly reminded him that intellectuals were frequently shot in the Soviet Union. Wright became certain that if his American comrades ever came to power, that would be his fate as well. "I began...
...alienated the teeming peasantry and urban poor who once supported Gandhi. The Youth Congress carried out sterilization and the companion slum clearance program with excessive brutality among the Muslims in Delhi, who saw the drive as an oppressive religious assault by the Hindus. Both the poor farmer and the menial city laborer viewed the aggressiveness of these programs as an attempt to destroy the large family, which they consider the best insurance for care...
...best, the rearing of children is a fascinating and rewarding occupation. But at worst, the mopping up of spilled food and the changing of diapers are menial labor of the lowest sort, dirty, boring, wearying and endless. The housewife gets no salary, no promotions, no titles, no formal evidence that the maintenance of family life is, as Jimmy Carter said in his Inaugural Address, "the basis of our society." The only thing that makes it bearable is constant reassurance that the best does go along with the worst, but the housewife has never had too much of that reassurance...