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...ethic, people will still work to live, but fewer will live only to work. As Albert Camus put it: "Without work all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies." It will be a long while, if ever, before men figure out ways to make the work of, say, a punch-press operator or a file clerk soul-enriching. While waiting for that millennium-which may require entirely new forms of work -bosses who expect loyalty from their employees should try to satisfy their demands for more freedom, more feeling of participation and personal responsibility...
...Crothers) and doing some fast real estate shuffling with a couple of cavernous old hotels (It is very desirable to erect hotels on account of the very large rental...). Irretrievably second rate, hopelessly outsmarted by the black gangsters, Jason sees his dreams of glory collapse like one of the rotten piers along the ocean's edge (A player is bankrupt when he owes more than...
Last Monday and Tuesday, more than 700,000 retailers, tradesmen and sympathizers struck in protest; the shopkeepers pulled down their blinds, turned off their lights and shut up shop. Most simply stayed home, but some marched and threw stones, tomatoes and rotten eggs at the windows of chain stores. Gas stations stopped pumping; highways and streets filled with cars that were abandoned after they ran out of fuel. Restaurants, movie theaters, newsstands all closed. Even doctors closed their offices in sympathy. Bars shut and prostitutes disappeared from the streets...
...used hashish to give fanatical courage to his hirelings before they set out on murder missions. Thus, from a corruption of hashshashin, they added the word assassin to the language. What has since been learned about hashish suggests that while the crusaders may have been good fighters, they were rotten reporters. More likely, the bloodthirsty sheik, if he ever existed, gave his men hash after, not before, their exploits, during a period of rewarding rest and recreation in a perfumed garden peopled with houris...
When McGovern heard the news last week, he stormed out of a Senate cloakroom exhaling an uncharacteristic fire. He repeated the threat: "It's an incredible, rotten, stinking political steal. I'm not going to support anybody who is elected by crooked and unethical procedures. I wouldn't have any part of a convention that would sustain this kind of shabby back-room dealing." Later, when his mood had cooled and he realized that his fight had just begun, McGovern seemed to change his mind. "I don't want to make any threats," he said...