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Brokaw is the oldest of three sons in an Irish, working-class family. His father, "Red" Brokaw, built dams along the Missouri River for the Army Corps of Engineers and stressed the importance of a strong work ethic...
Sipping tea in his Broadway dressing room last week, Lane, 40, was subdued and a little weary, his voice only occasionally rising to his patented pitch of whiny sarcasm. (Asked about working in the shadow of original Forum star Zero Mostel, he replies with a tart "Who?") Lane grew up in a working-class Irish-American family in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he regularly starred in the plays at St. Peter's Prep. In New York he started building his theater resume, appearing in flops (the Doug Henning musical Merlin) and a few prestige successes (a revival of Noel...
...second volume of her autobiography, makes clear, Thatcher was probably too simple and direct for the Tories, with their heavy baggage of class and compromise. She traveled light, proud of her roots as a grocer's daughter from the small town of Grantham but never tethered by working-class resentments or delusions of inferiority. Her parents taught her the verities they believed in: Methodism, hard work, thrift and the importance of the individual. She has never wavered from them, and they run through the book...
...ACCOLADES-AND THE MONETARY rewards-were gratifying, particularly to a working-class kid, the son of a plasterer from the London suburb of Watford. "He doesn't exactly throw money around," his sister Victoria, 21, told the Watford Observer, "but he feels we shouldn't go without and if he can help us, he does-he's our big brother. He loved his work and would put in up to 20 hours a day. He wanted to make something of himself because he knew he could." The press, she added, "seem to be saying that if you are working class...
...case in point is Nagata, an older working-class district that was swept by a conflagration. Nagata's numerous small factories housed nearly 70% of Japan's shoe industry, which may not rise again. Yasunori Noma, 72, picked methodically through piles of bricks and fire-blackened equipment in search of salvageable machined tubing. Noma's one-man operation had supplied makers of car components. Without insurance, he faces total loss. ``I was thinking about retiring, but now I'll have to work,'' he remarked while putting a piece of steel tubing in a bag. He did not have much faith...