Word: sisyphus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gets icebound by his research. A back cloth of ghostly white covers the entire rear wall, and the floor has a bleak, blinding pallor. The sled carrying supplies and scientific instruments is a gray oblong mass to be pushed and pulled by the men like a cursed rock of Sisyphus...
...ambition, to make the Kennedy School do for government what the law, business and medical schools have done for their professions, may be like Sisyphus's task more an inspiration than a practical goal, Jackson says, "We're not going to solve [the problems of government]like the School of Public Health could solve lead poisoning. We're just trying to improve, over time, the quality of people who staff government...
...tale of Sisyphus, the Laborer, demonstrated the futility of monotonous work. Sisyphus, who is commanded by an unknown power to roll a stone up a hill, only to have it roll down over him again and again, was juxtraposed with modern assembly line workers, whose work became almost robot-like and equally crushing under the will of an equally demanding and omnipotent force...
Nowadays they talk about this guy named Sisyphus whose business it was to roll rocks up a hill. Sounds about as exciting as a weekend party at South House, huh? Well there's more. Every time he got the rock to the top of the hill it would roll back down and he'd have to start all over again...
...Sisyphus isn't around anymore, but there's another guy pushing rocks up a hill. His name is Ed Ajootian and the symbol of his frustration is a 35-pound metal weight...