Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stephen Kolzak) is a boring dandy of an accountant who wants to be successful as a gambler; he winds up with a blindfold over his eyes, gingerbread stuffed in his mouth, and a dead mouse in his fist. Drugger (Denis Pelli) is an honest tob acconist who wants his shop to prosper; Pelli stammers and shuffles cringingly enough, but it's a little disturbing to see Jonson make fun of someone simply because he's not too bright and wants to prosper. Sir Epicure Mammon (Spito Veloudos) has always been the character in the play I most identify with...
...after talking to him she went back in the office and came out and said I was suspended." Holcombe got an unpaid suspension for the rest of that day and the following three working days--a suspension he says is a direct result of his being an active shop steward...
...dull witted man full of absurd notions"--while he must seem to Harvard an inexperienced troublemaker, someone who, as Stefani says, needs to "get educated" to the way labor management relations are usually conducted here Holcombe's aggressive, stream-of-grievances. Harvard-as-enemy style of shop stewardship is new to the University, and although Balsam seems to share Holcombe's attitudes he has been quieter and avoided disciplinary trouble...
...Employees here haven't looked into what the University could do for them." Holcombe says. "They're afraid of losing their jobs. I know employees at Harvard are dissatisfied, but under fear of suspension they won't speak out. To the people in my shop I'm a hero. I'm brave. I don't care about losing my job. You can go in any dining hall and all you hear is gripes--but they won't go in with those gripes...
Sherman Holcombe: "I know employees at Harvard are dissatisfied, but under fear of suspension they won't speak out. To the people in my shop I'm a hero. I'm brave. I don't care about losing my job. You can go in any dining hall and all you hear is gripes--but they won't go in with those gripes...