Word: working
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...workers are assumed to be unable to make smart choices about their reproductive futures, and men, whose own reproductive systems remain at risk to lead exposure, are left alone. Non-existent, spiritual fetuses are the justification for a company's right to: a) deprive potential mothers of high-paying work and b) deprive potential mothers of potential motherhood. An ostensibly "pro-life" policy becomes a policy of sex discrimination and forced sterilization...
...penchant for giving unheard-of writers undreamt-of recognition? Yes, in the sense that Cela has not had much impact outside his native land for a quarter-century. But on reflection, the better answer is no, for Cela, though now little read, has amassed a body of powerful, disturbing work -- and lived a risky, iconoclastic life -- that fully merits the world's attention...
Being among the victors did not bring Cela many spoils. In 1942 his novel The Family of Pascual Duarte caused a sensation. Ostensibly the memoir of a triple murderer awaiting execution, the novel portrayed a Spanish countryside awash in madness, vengeance and bloodshed. The work was harshly attacked. Mordantly, Cela dedicated the book "to my enemies, who have been of such help to me in my career." In 1951 came The Hive, which was banned outright by the Franco government. This terse, episodic novel retailed the incidental miseries of some 160 inhabitants of a squalid Madrid...
...sooner help comes, the better. A study of 200 traumatic-stress cases by researchers at the Barrington Psychiatric Center in Los Angeles revealed that the costs of rehabilitation, disability, absence from work and litigation were six times as high for victims who received no or delayed therapy as for those who were treated quickly. That suggests that California health officials should offer as much counseling as possible now -- or face even more serious distress in the future...
Explaining this sympathy requires one of those shoe-on-the-other-foot tales. Perhaps dog-bites-dog is a better label. Like many Washington-based agents for large news organizations, I am mentioned in other publications now and then. Our work is parsed by press critics; we get into contretemps with the powerful; we serve as filler for the growing number of gossip columns. All this is, in principle, legitimate. Those who groan reflexively when needled or critiqued simply confirm the aphorism about journalistic skins being thinner than the average American adult's. What stokes my personal...