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...tasks remained her burden. Says Medvene: "She got the message. She felt belittled and demeaned." Only after the couple went into therapy did the husband acknowledge that his wife had valid appointments of her own. He now helps tend their children and takes duty leave to wait for the plumber...
...matter. Adler's greatest pleasure is in reaching ordinary people, prodding what he believes to be the innate desire to learn. Proudly, he shows a recent letter from David Call, a journeyman plumber in Utah: "I am writing on behalf of a group of construction workers (mostly plumbers!)," notes Call, "who have finally found a teacher worth listening to. We have been studying your books for over a year now and have put together a sizable library of your writings. We may be plumbers during the day, but at lunch time and at night and on weekends, we are philosophers...
...Dillon) is a poor Brooklyn boy working for the summer at an upper-middle-class Long Island beach club. There he meets a car dealer (Richard Crenna), slightly shady and blatantly materialistic, who tries to tempt him away from the good values of his decent dad (Hector Elizondo), a plumber whose trade may be humble but whose spirit is not. There is originality and poignancy in Neal Marshall's story about competing father figures, and Garry Marshall's direction is unforced but never lackadaisical. The movie is rich in the eccentrically comic details of club life...
...thinks it is, why doesn't the press clean its own house? Where is its professional responsibility? The difficulty begins with that word professional. Medicine and law, being professions, can expel or censure wrongdoers, even though fraternal coziness makes such action rare. Journalism has no admission standards. A plumber or a hairdresser must pass a test to get a license, but no journalist does, on the grounds that licensing would be abhorrent to the idea of a free and robust press...
John Glenn, the plumber's son from New Concord, Ohio, became a world-class hero before he was 50 and a millionaire after 50 as a hotel owner and business executive. Before Glenn dropped out of the Democratic race last week, he 5 frequently warned that the American people are frightened and hesitant...