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...control 50 of the 66 seats in Parliament, and 8 of those intended for blacks are appointed by the white government. The average wage of a black Rhodesian is one-tenth that of the white; the black African population is restricted mostly to menial jobs. In the countryside they toil as virtual slaves for the white planters...
...Life here is all 'arse up and head down,' " says Crew Member Patrick Baron. Roughneck Leo Cariou, a veteran of 14 years in oilfields round the world, explains: "It's part adventure, part backbreaking toil, a big part loneliness. We are the adventurers of the energy business, and the oceans are our last frontier to exploit." That is a notion not often expressed here on the barge; the relentless search for oil affords time for little but the mind-numbing and muscle-aching work that grinds along in hopes of the big payoff...
There is a second myth which functions also in the upper echelons of Faculty and pupils. This myth is the Fiction of Hard Work: "proper pay for quite unusual extremes of toil, labor and responsibility." The student learns to think, incant, believe (so also do his teachers, tutors, Deans) that intellectual work is, in itself, exceptionally oppressive, burdensome or overwhelming. There is, indeed, a quite pervasive myth that labors like these are possibly more difficult, more burdensome, and more exacting, than the less-rewarded work of physical day labor. University professors really do believe that this is difficult work. They...
...code of ethics no more elevated than hers. These women lie, cheat on their cheating husbands, booze it up and assassinate each other's characters between brunch and bridge. Even while she gives tongue to their malice, Mrs. Luce clearly sees them as parasites who neither toil nor spin, except for their cunning webs of mischief. Like a social anthropologist, she follows these felines to their lairs-exercise parlors, hairdresser sessions, nightclub powder rooms. In an all-female play, these scenes cater to the U.S. male's assumption that women are as much a conspiracy...
Nature should also be modified in other ways, Dubos believes. "Many richnesses of nature are brought to light only in regions that have been humanized"-that is, transformed by human toil into agricultural lands, gardens and parks. But Dubos warned that for every pound of food produced by these areas there is an enormous expenditure of energy-to make and drive the farmer's tractors, to irrigate the land, to manufacture fertilizers and pesticides. Thus, he took issue with another ecological dogma-that expansion of energy production should be curtailed. The continued well-being of agriculture, he said...