Word: terkel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...factory hand quoted in Studs Terkel's Working...
Tell Studs Terkel that Richard Rodriguez is not "an exceptional individual" who may be "used by others to make a general case." Terkel can find many Cuban Americans who arrived here 20 years ago as non-English-speaking youngsters and are now valuable members of their communities because they had to learn English in school. I was one of those children, and I thank God we did not have "bilingualism" back then...
...backing away from affirmative action, his views take on political significance. He has been quoted and courted by an array of right-wing politicians "for whom," he says, "I would never vote," and called a "brown Uncle Tom" by minority groups. Commenting on Hunger of Memory, Oral Historian Studs Terkel, a supporter of affirmative action, warns, "I don't want to see the book of an exceptional individual used by others to make a general case." Rodriguez, who now lives simply in a small San Francisco apartment, shares that concern. Says he: "I've always been in favor...
Supply-side economics had the common-sense appeal of an old proverb, but nothing guaranteed it would work. Too much American dream, and not enough Studs Terkel, its ideal viewpoint pictured the sort of workplace the country could be, without the realities progress to that state would encounter. The numbers never did add up, and that's what made David Stockman so important. His mission as director of the Office of Management and Budget was to convince an incredulous public and Congress that the numbers would add up even if it didn't look that way. His responsibility clear from...
...country runs and runs, from fear of death and pollution and old age as well as from longing for health, beauty and wellbeing. But what Americans will do with their revitalized corpora remains to be seen. Author Studs Terkel (Working) views the goings-on like a blue-collar Jeremiah. Says he: "Working on your body is narcissistic. It's basically a solo act. Narcissism comes when you're not connected to the rest of the world." By contrast, Dr. Dennis Colacino, director of the PepsiCo Fitness Programs, proclaims: "It gives people a better self-image. It helps...