Word: sisyphus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best of my recollection, abetted by contemporary research, it was Sisyphus who was the Greeks' most futile lapidist, not Tantalus...
Many a Wall Street broker visualizes himself as a modern Sisyphus in a special kind of New Deal Hell: endlessly rolling a Business boulder up a WPA hill built too steep by Federal spending, sown too thickly with SEC hazards, watered so heavily with Federal supervision that the boulder continually slips out of his hands and rolls back into Depression...
...party," Author Ford had too much bounce in him ever to be cast down for good. Though for years his books brought him very little money he kept at them. "I have been accustomed to regard myself as of the family of the dung-beetle"-a stoical insect Sisyphus. With no audible repinings that he is an expatriate or not yet a best-seller he has settled down to live "in France where the Arts are held in great honor and as often as I can I go to the U. S. where the greatest curiosity as to the Arts...
...College and the editors of the CRIMSON than I seem to detect from the course of the two series of articles published to date. The devilish difficulty of undergraduate journalism, as viewed from the windows of the college offices, is that to maintain intimate relations is a labor of Sisyphus. Annually the officers roll the stone up to the top of the incline, and the next autumn they must start to roll it uphill all over again. My final proposal contains machinery for putting some of the burden for these intimate relations upon the CRIMSON...