Word: sisyphus
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...Sisyphus and we are all Midas, pushing a rock of gold west to California, knowing it will never cross the continental divide, knowing it will chase us down the mountain, knowing it will crush us with the weight of a shimy dime falling from the top of the Empire State...
Ibrahim Souss, 34, director of the P.L.O. office in Paris, gave his first piano recital in eleven years last November. In addition to Chopin mazurkas and Debussy preludes, he played a work of his own composition called The Myth of Sisyphus. Souss says the sonata was actually intended as a kind of anti-myth of Sisyphus, the legendary King of Corinth whose fate was to push a boulder up a mountain throughout eternity. As such, it represents a musical interpretation of Souss's belief "that man must take destiny into his own hands." Born in Jerusalem in 1945, Souss...
...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...