Word: toils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans might even honor the exuberant, slightly bizarre poetry of their commercial muse. Two or three generations ago, the national laureate might have been the anonymous bard who wrote the Burma Shave roadside quatrains ("In this vale/ Of toil and sin/ Your head grows bald/ But not your chin/ Burma Shave.") The beer commercial ("You've danced all day on a pool of fire," or some such: "Now Comes Miller Time!") has invented a sort of macho haiku that might turn into a national verse form...
Ranchers and other neighbors complained about the project in the early '70s, when some of Soleri's liberated female workers decided to toil away barebreasted, and "every trucker on Interstate 17 found some reason to stop at Arcosanti." Stories about drugs and skinny-dipping in nearby Lynx Lake upset the many religious fundamentalists in a state where billboards proclaim that "the wages of sin is death...
...like Providence, Soleri works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform. He operates within a paltry budget of $250,000 a year, most of which comes from his books and lectures, the sale of bells made on the site, and the $300 fees paid by those who come to toil on the project for a five-week workshop period. Those who stay longer get put on the payroll at $35 a week; and a few "Frank Lloyd Wright Scholars" attend free in exchange for manning the kitchens, a reminder of Soleri's own apprenticeship at Wright's Taliesin...
Workers in the old-line "sweat and toil" industries, which once symbolized America's economic might, are now suffering the worst unemployment. Stretching across the nation's manufacturing heartland, from the foothills of the Alleghenies, west to the Mississippi River and north to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, stands an idle army of the jobless...
...toil of all that...