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...more German than French, and there are plenty of seductive German help-wanted ads in the paper. The German presence in Alsace, in fact, is stronger today than at any time since the Armistice. "They are buying back what they lost in two wars," complains a Paris-based salesman. "It's just a different form of occupation." Perhaps mindful of that possibility, French educational authorities have forbidden the teaching of German-language courses in Strasbourg primary schools...
...much of society treats the aged as an undifferentiated group whose only function is to await death. The author took one feisty woman to pose as a pro spective resident of a retirement community. Here, purred the salesman, "you are free from worry. We have a security patrol, 24 hours a day, just looking after your welfare so you can sleep in peace." Replied Mrs. Duffy: "Thafs exactly what the man said when I bought a plot in the cemetery...
Curtin attacks the whole concept of forced retirement. She tells of a retired furniture salesman, who had wanted all his life to be a carpenter. Finally he had the time, offered to work free as an apprentice to learn the trade, but was told the unions would object, or insurance could not be had to cover the risk at his age; he was even too old to join a trade school carpentry class. Instead, he was directed to a hobby shop where, rather than build furniture, he could learn to burn homilies into pieces of wood...
...fund's own salesmen or to a broker who has been designated by the fund as its agent. For his services, which may include counseling but often consist of no more than filling out a form and mailing it in to the fund, the salesman or broker-agent is rewarded with the sweetest commission in the securities industry: an average of 8% to 8.5% of the total purchase price, compared with an average of 1.45% on trades in corporate stocks such as General Motors and U.S. Steel...
...twelve pictures of a patient side by side, each more blurred than the preceding one. For many patients, he says, these multiple, shadowy images serve as a bridge "into deeper inner selves" that have remained, like the images themselves, elusive and distorted. Berger asked one shy, self-demeaning salesman with virtually no memories of his childhood to comment on split-screen images of himself. "It's like me looking into the past," the salesman said, "and I get smaller and smaller until I disappear into nothingness." Then he remembered that as a child he had felt worthless, different from...