Word: clerkships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Billy's real life is crammed to the brim with that dreary banality which has become cinematically synonymous with the British middle-class. To escape the drabness of his clerkship at the local mortician's and the carpings of his parents and crotchety grandma, Billy manufactures absurd complications in his personal life. For a starter, he perpetually fabricates deceptions--apparently for the sheer adventure of extricating himself from the embarrassments which result. A neighbor inquires after his father: Billy unnecessarily invents disease and surgery. As the contradictions pile up, his lies grow more extravagant and improbable...
Alas, Domenico is too young, too innocent to see that if he does what they do he will one day be as they are. At the end, promoted to a clerkship, he sits at his new desk and looks calmly into the camera. He has achieved his ambition, he has won un posto sicuro. The audience senses that he will never leave it. On the sound track gradually rises the mechanical relentless rumbling of a mimeograph machine...
...accused by the Soviet news agency, Tass, of starting his career in an armaments factory). Saturdays, he played third base for the semi-pro Guelph Maple Leafs. "No batter," says Teammate Dink Carroll, now a Montreal Gazette sports columnist, "but a good glove man." When promoted to clerkship in Armour's Chicago fertilizer works, he applied for, and got, a scholarship to Oxford...
After that came a clerkship at A. & P., a fling at sailing in the West Indies and newspapering in Manhattan (the defunct PM), and World War II service with the Coast Guard in the Pacific...
Dean Griswold pointed out that at present the law schools are unable to channel the idealism of the college youths who go on to study law. "The student is caught in the current which says that the real measure of success is a clerkship with a prominent judge followed by an association with a large metropolitan law firm...