Word: worker
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Considering the tremendous impact of anthropology on modern thought it is perhaps surprising that such a systematic investigation has been so long delayed. For decades field workers have returned to civilization to tell us that primitive thought is as much a cultural artifact as potsherds, farming methods, and sex taboos. So too the historians have devoted volumes to demonstrating that the intellectual interests and methods of our ancestors reflected their natural and social environment. Applying all this to our own society, we have studied the mentality of the juvenile delinquent, the compulsive neurotic, and the migrant worker to show that...
Behind scenes, Mitchell has been trying to get President Eisenhower and the Cabinet to tide the unemployed over until there is a step-up in hiring. He works against a firm deadline: April 1, when expiration of an Administration recession law will drop 320,000 workers-who have already used up their regular jobless pay -from special federal unemployment compensation lists. Hoping to do more than extend the emergency legislation, Mitchell has spelled out a plan for basic revision in the present patchwork of state compensation practices, all financed by the 3% U.S. payroll tax. By setting stiffer standards under...
Back in Harlem, Belafonte worked as a handyman in tenement houses, toyed with the idea of becoming either a professional basketball player or a social worker, finally drifted into the theater by accident. (The occasion: he got two tickets to an American Negro Theater production as a tip for repairing Venetian blinds.) He worked as a stagehand at the theater, appeared in a few minor roles. Soon after that, he enrolled in the Dramatic Workshop at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, where his classmates included Marlon Brando and Tony Curtis. Harry also persuaded Marguerite to marry...
...solid economic fact that British advertisers spend more than $17,000,000 weekly luring women v. a paltry $3,000,000 on men. All Fleet Street is chasing petticoats, from the grand and gouty Times, whose Monday women's page creaks like a corseted dowager, to the Daily Worker, which regularly runs features on fashions...
...Shall I tell about a couple of lovers and how it turned out that she was the newly appointed director of the factory where he was an unsatisfactory worker? We've had that ten times. Shall I tell how she, his beloved, attained high production levels, while he, her beloved, was still not up to . . .? I don't even want to finish thinking this to the end: we've had it a hundred times already...