Word: sisyphus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrats now, like Sisyphus in the classic fable, must roll our great, heavy stone uphill again, and we never will roll it uphill again unless there shall be a reversion on the part of the party to its former sound ideas of the proper relations between the states and the National Government and between governmental activity and private industrial activity...
...have the illusory certainty of a legislative enactment, but as a source to which judges and lawyers may resort for precise and comprehensive information, possessing the only lasting authority, that of learning and accuracy. It is a colossal undertaking; some might say it is the task of Sisyphus...
...Like Sisyphus, who never quite arrived, too many men find themselves after years of exacting work, wondering why they chose their occupations as they did. Usually, the answer is that they did not choose. They happened in to whatever was most convenient, or seemed easiest, or appeared to pay most. And this acceptance of what the Gods may send in general. Even at this late hour, probably half of the Seniors do not know what they really want to do for the rest of their lives. Even students in the graduate schools have not necessarily committed themselves yet: often...