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Instead, this exploration of the ambitions and frustrations of 26 working men and women--adapted from the 1978 Studs Terkel book, which was based in turn on copious interviews--moves ahead with unerring confidence. Director Jonathan Magaril focuses on simplicity, on mining all the emotion possible out of the script's surprisingly rich words. Though the play breaks some traditional rules of structure--building tension and plot through a series of tangentially linked cameos--and thus requires some unconventional tricks of production, Magaril cannot strictly be said to be experimenting. He knows exactly what he is about...
...Working which is sober and reflective. Briefly alone under the light, each secretary and steelworker and schoolteacher talks about life and the job, awkwardly philosophizes, and turns back to obscurity. Some evoke the original interview clearly, while others flower into song and acute, desperate commentary on their lives. Terkel evidently found articulate and thoughtful subjects for his research; instead of rambling "life's rough" sagas, he has documented startling flashes of insight...
...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...