Word: terkel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AMERICAN DREAMS: LOST AND FOUND by Studs Terkel; Pantheon; 470 pages...
...turmoil; he knows that to address anything too close to the core will mean unsightly mess. He is too polite, too squeamish, or maybe too lazy to examine the innards, to ask his subjects to puke their guts out so he can poke around in them a little. Studs Terkel used the McPhee occupation-centered approach in his voluminous book Working; though he stuck religiously to his tape recordings, he managed, with his questions and with the inflections of an interviewer who understands, to draw out far more of the pain and slight glory of the work-a-day world...
...modest pay (about $16,000 a year), the editors claim contentment. Says Deirdre English, 32: "Editorial decisions tend to come out of what excites us." What excites them in the August issue includes a racketeering labor union, worker deaths in a steel plant near Baltimore and excerpts from Studs Terkel's upcoming book American Dreams: Lost and Found...
...only thing we have to fear is fear itself) form a personal psychodrama for him. He speaks with the authenticity of a war correspondent who saw men fall and whose vision was permanently altered by the experience. Calling the play "a mural for the theater inspired by Studs Terkel's Hard Times," Miller provides panoramic vignettes of just about everything one has read or heard of the period. The seemingly invincible princes of Wall Street get themselves wiped out overnight and take their suicidal plunges. Angry dairy farmers drown highways in milk. The haggard hour of the breadlines arrives...
Commoner, of course, has a vested interest in making an analogy with a successful political departure, but perhaps Studs Terkel's comparison to the Populist era is more appropriate to the contemporary political scene. Eugene V. Debs, founder of the American Socialist Party, once said during that period, "I would rather vote for what I want and not get it, than vote for what I don't want...