Word: terkel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty years ago, Studs Terkel's Working explored the lives of Americans with jobs that seemed like long-term marriages, frustrating, satisfying, boring, rewarding: familiar, anyway, and built on a rock foundation. Careers had a kind of narrative line. It began with something like apprenticeship and then, in the ideal model, proceeded through hard work and merit to raises, promotions, success and eventual retirement with pension. Seniority and experience meant something: work was as close as Americans came to the Confucian. Getting fired was a disgrace, the scarlet letter...
...Braun, who is far from anti-Semitic and is in fact a strong supporter of Israel, didn't even get a chance to defend herself. Numerous local columnists, writer Studs Terkel and Senator Paul Simon leapt to her defense, lambasting Williamson's tactics...
Comparing Willamson to a "punch-drunk prize fighter who has lost every round to a better opponent," Terkel said, "it's the last round and he hasn't a ghost of a chance of winning unless he hits foul punches...
BOOKS Studs Terkel, the tape recorder's best friend, deals with racism...
More than an obsession, race and racism appear to be inseparable parts of a deep neurosis in the human psyche. In which case, the value of Terkel's latest book is not theatrical, sociological or historical but therapeutic -- a promising group session for a nation that loves to talk...