Word: menial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alexander Daniel, the 20-year-old son of Yuli, was denied admission to Tartu University in Estonia, although he had been accepted earlier and had graduated at the top of his high school class. Recently he was fired from a menial job in the computer center of the Moscow Engineering Institute. At a meeting called to discuss young Daniel's case, the rector of the institute, Nikolai Strel-huk, expressed particular dissatisfaction about the number of Jews, like Daniel, who had been hired at the institute...
...they continued to do menial helper's work, how could they advance? In order to become journeymen they must do journeymen's work," he added...
...home with their youngsters. The requirement that family-assistance recipients accept "suitable" employment also worries some. They fear that the lack of safeguards in Nixon's plan against abuses of this requirement could lead to unemployed people being trained for skilled work and then being forced to accept menial jobs to qualify for federal...
...deaf old porter Ferapont is in the capable hands of James Greene, who is obliged to wear shabby or worn-out clothing and whose figures stick through holes in his black mittens. He carries out his menial chores without complaint. Michael Parish and Tom Klunis do yeoman service in small straightforward roles of lieutenants Fedotik and Rode...
...Eluards duly installed the fugitive in an apartment in the same building, and Ernst took a menial job in a souvenir factory. It was obviously no place for an artist, and so Eluard offered Ernst a commission to decorate a house that he had acquired at Eau-bonne, 15 miles outside Paris. The young maverick made the most of the opportunity. He let his playful brush and imagination run rampant over walls, doors and ceilings. By the time Ernst was finished, he had transformed the small stone villa into a uniquely hallucinatory backdrop, hi these surroundings, the founders of Surrealism...