Word: menials
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Each of them scarred by ugly memories, they enact-as man and woman, as menial and lady-an ugly drama. Their spitting and clawing seems sick, savage, yet never beyond belief. In the current production, the play's power is more spasmodic than sustained; despite George Tabori's playable adaptation, too much tends to date. Though Swedish-born Viveca Lindfors succeeds in the title role, James Daly overstresses what is crude in the valet by a crudity of attack. Even so, Miss Julie has explosive elements that neither O'Neill, Hellman nor Tennessee Williams has ever surpassed...
...Phillips Brooks House. Not all their endeavors involve the production of mere good humor in the five Greater Boston hospitals to which they are assigned. While one Volunteer may waste away the hours playing checkers with paralyzed 11-year olds, another may find himself busy with the most menial tasks in a city hospital accident room. The enthusiasm which College and Radcliffe Volunteers have shown since the beginning of the term, in a veritable renaissance of student concern for the healing of human malady, is regarded by some as the start of a national trend among college students...
...hope to earn a living from the small acreage, but usually the other children must clear out. Some try to get jobs in the local village as administrators or market workers. Most of them-some 100,000 a year -drift into cities, unprepared to face industrial life, find menial factory jobs as unskilled laborers...
...Untouchability' is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden," the Indian constitution promised in November 1949. But through much of Nehru's emergent country, the 50-million Hindu untouchables continued to live their menial lives, scorned and ignored by caste-conscious Hindus. Last week Nehru introduced, and the lower House of the People quickly passed, India's first bill to make discrimination against untouchables an offense-punishable with a six-month jail term and a fine of 500 rupees ($105). Henceforth, untouchables will have the law on their side in demanding undisturbed access to shops...
...legal battle that ensued, Mrs. Walker contended that she took the menial job only to be closer to her real interest in life, labor unionism. Cutter officials charged that she wanted to be in the laboratory to further the aims of Communism. A National Labor Relations Board unit and a California Superior Court ordered the laboratory to reinstate her, holding that she had actually been fired because of union activities...