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...Ireland with his wife and five children, looking for a place to settle for a while. Mama and Daddy began "their career as tenants and travellers" 15 years earlier "when they'd surrendered their house in the woods, the first and last place they'd ever owned, to the faceless men of the highway department for a service road, and a few years later, when they'd surrendered the beautiful old place, the oldest house in the town, to the faceless men of the department of education for a parking lot (now occupied) by a faceless building), there had been...
Sissela is not a stranger to the limelight; from childhood on she's never known a day of anonymity. Yet she is not herself among a group of faceless cocktail conversationalists. She trys hard and bears through it all, joining intellectual discussions whenever possible...
...problems with the welfare system are far graver than Harrington makes out. It is not just more money that's needed: the whole system must bereorganized so that it is controlled from the bottom up, not managed by faceless bureaucrats. If Marx taught us anything, it was that freedom cannot be conferred from above--people must have the opportunity to organize their own lives and discover their own dignity and worth. Frederick Wiseman's recent documentary, Welfare, made it amply clear that both freedom and dignity are absent in the current welfare system...
...open door to see whether he is there. "To be able to lead here in a more personal way would be more gratifying," says Owen, "but the rules of the game are different. I have to deal with the union rather than the employee. The employees become the faceless ones...
Doug Peach does not feel that the union movement has made him faceless: "Fifteen years ago, I was crying out to be accepted as a human being instead of a clock number. But there has been quite a change. I cannot see anything I am crying out for so desperately now. I don't really want to change my life...