Word: terkel
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...Terkel was in Boston last week for the book author's obligatory plug-it and-run tour. Such promotional chores are part of his job, part of what he does all day now. But he would rather stay in Chicago, and he plans to cut the trip short, exercising a freedom of choice that the waitress, barber, and strip miner in his book (all pseudononymous characters) would probably envy...
Late last Friday afternoon, Terkel stretched majestically on his bed at the Copley Plaza. His hands were locked together behind his white hair to form a headrest; at the other end of his small body, his stocking feet were crossed. Terkel must have sensed the grandeur of the pose. "Do I look like one of those hoods?," he asked, thinking perhaps of some mafia chieftan...
...looked more scrappy than tough, more homely than slick--like the kind of man who would be named Studs. Terkel spoke energetically in a voice loaded with street flavor and professional resonance...
...Terkel: At the time Andre made that suggestion, we were just starting to question the quote-unqoute "work ethic" that Honest Dick talks about so much. There was that moment when we had that leisure after the Depression--post-World War II, in the sixties--when young people began to question, and say, "I want to do what I want to do, what I like to do." Well, that caught on in a way [laughs]--strangely enough. And so you got the young auto workers--young auto workers--absent on Mondays or Fridays: "Fuck it, doing all that stuff...
...accuses you of romanticizing the common man. Let me read you a quote from the second part of his review that ran on March 22: "In yesterday's column, I raised some questions about the nature of the evidence Studs Terkel gathered by tape recording 130 people talking about their jobs. Were they telling the truth? Did they know the whole truth about themselves? Is 'Working' an accurate picture or one more instance of the intellectual's tendency to translate the ordinary American into a tragic figure trapped by fate...