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Perhaps this is why, among people who actually toil in plastics, The Graduate exerts an appeal similar to that which the Godfather movies are said to hold for mobsters, a sort of cultural validation of their rarefied corner of the work world. "The Graduate was a hell of an advertisement for the industry," says John Clark of Brown Plastics Engineering Co. "It's something you always think about," says Larry McCormack of Incoe Corp., who claims to have seen stills of the movie hanging in plastics-company offices all around the country. "It changed my life," says Vince Witherup...
Harvard can be an unpleasant place, wearing even the most durable students down. But at the end of day, we know why we keep coming back for more. The toil of inexplicably long hours spent in the library produces an education, and in most cases a better person. The smiling faces of the men and women who will commence on Thursday, filled with accomplishment, are testimony enough that a College diploma is worth some suffering...
...hypothetical voice of a prospective nominee: "I make six figures and have an expense account that reaches from here to eternity. Tell me again why I would want to run the nomination gauntlet to toil away in a huge government bureaucracy." Statements like that help explain why a nominee like businessman and Democratic fund raiser Terry McAuliffe withdrew his name from consideration for Secretary of Commerce. Even hush-hush high finance isn't a draw: two governorships on the Federal Reserve are vacant. Any takers...
...that the lab folks at tiny CellPro, Inc. are uninterested in saving lives. It's just that like most biotech researchers, they prefer to toil far away from the gritty reality of illness and human suffering. So when the CEO of their Bothell, Wash., company announced a year ago that he had developed a deadly lymphatic cancer and that his slim chance for survival might rest on their lab results, it was more than they'd bargained for. They already knew their company was fighting for survival, locked in a legal battle over patents with a competitor. Now they were...
...capitalism, but at the same time, fantasies portray its benefits. For instance, one finds a cautionary note about the human search for utopia in the movie "Appleseed", where a world programmed to be perfect through scientific advances becomes as much of a prison as the pre-utopia world of toil and strife...