Word: supervisoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diggers, who were, in some senses, being exploited. The atmosphere of community was the strongest cohesive force. Diggers lived, ate, worked and relaxed together. Privacy was a rare commodity. The ratio of men to women was even, and the social life was another persuasive communal force. As one site supervisor remarked. "They (the diggers) don't come for the social life, because they don't know it's here, but they'd leave without...
...labor of excavation itself proved, in varying degrees, exciting to diggers, although novices exported romantic notions about archeology which the dig pitilessly disillusioned. Every volunteer was instructed by his site supervisor in a crash course about field methods, and learned to dig by trial and error. Field work was really manual labor. At one site during the final season, diggers pick-axed for nine hours through modern street pavement and bedrock every day before they could begin the usual troweling, which was far less tiring, but more painstaking work. To dig well required patience and exactitude, imagination and endurance...
...GOOD DIGGER, one supervisor explained, does not require constant attention. He learns quickly, can be trusted to recognize what he is looking for, and will not accidentally slice through a deeper layer while scraping the top off an earlier layer. Discipline on the sites was strict, and it was no easy trick to slough off. It could be done, and diggers were caught napping in deep graves or sunbathing in trenches. Those who were languid, or in some manner troublesome, were asked to leave town. Some volunteers never caught on, and the worst ones were legendary. One year a particularly...
Floridians speak bluntly about busing. "I don't want to bus my kids into the ghetto," grouses Bill Hardy, a life insurance supervisor in South Miami. "Christ! That's what I worked to get out of." Declares Mrs. Tina Curran, who has lived for 20 years in Miami but is moving to avoid busing: "I have no intention of letting my daughter Bambi be bused away to a black or white school. I'd do anything to stop it." Complains Ronald Stroud, harbormaster at Fort Lauderdale's Pier 66: "Massive busing is a disgrace to this...
...problems or development of new ones. Some of the wives began to feel that their husbands were "no longer a man." Extramarital affairs became more frequent, drinking and job troubles increased, and minor disagreements seemed less tolerable. Though the number of cases in the study is small, Staff Supervisor Shirley Southwick of the Family Service Organization of Worcester, Mass., asserts that they are not atypical: across the country, she says, marriage counselors have growing doubts that vasectomies are always benign...