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But I had a natural curiosity and maybe a wanderlust that goes back, at least in part, to my father telling me I wasn’t leaving Iowa to go to Cornell. I’m not a better person than any other coach for the nontraditional path I took. But I’m pretty sure I’m a different person than I would have been. When I coached the Canadian national team in the summer of 2019, we stopped in Australia to play some exhibition games on our way to the FIBA tournament in China. I took all the guys to the Sydney Opera House to see West Side Story. I know not all of them wanted to go, but I figured they’d thank me in twenty years. A few months before that, on an off night in New York, I arranged for our Raptors players to see Hamilton on Broadway. It’s not my job, of course, to show them this stuff, but I do feel it’s a little bit of my responsibility. It’s not going to hurt their basketball to open up their minds a little—and it might actually help.
Rapture
Nick Nurse and Phil Jackson
Aggressive industrialists were convinced that in confronting organizers they were battling the devil himself. They didn’t mean to lose. As the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee was to discover in December 1934, over 2,500 American employers employed strikebreaking companies, the largest of which were Pearl Bergoff Services and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Bergoff was a multimillion-dollar heavy; the Pinkertons, favored by Detroit’s automobile industry, earned nearly two million dollars between 1933 and 1936. Each of them maintained a small standing army which was ready to move into struck jobs carrying machine pistols, gas guns, and clubs. Both also infiltrated workmen’s ranks as undercover agents. When a senator asked Herman L. Weckler, vice president of the Chrysler Corporation, why he hired spies, he replied, “We must do it to obtain the information we need in dealing with our employees.” Thousands of men were literally working at gunpoint; the Pittsburgh Coal Company, for example, kept machine guns trained on employees in its coal pits. A congressional committee asked why. Chairman Richard B. Mellon answered, “You cannot run the mines without them.” Under these circumstances, the eagerness of workers to organize was really a measure of their desperation. The frightened miners, the sweated garment workers in Manhattan, the dime-an-hour laborers at Briggs Manufacturing in Detroit, and the nickel-an-hour clerks in Detroit knew that nothing else worked. State laws had been tried. In Pennsylvania employers systematically checked off 33 cents a week from the pay of each child to indemnify themselves for $100 fines imposed upon them for working the children ninety hours a week. The average steelworker’s clothes caught fire at least once each week. Rather than invest in safety devices, the Pittsburgh mills lost over 20,000 workers a year maimed by industrial accidents.
The Glory and the Dream
William Manchester
By the way, the term “resonance” describes how I make many creative decisions. It’s music and reason and mysticism all wrapped up in a word that sounds like what it is. Some creative choices simply feel ripe with potential; I can feel when a new idea sets a flurry of sympathetic ideas vibrating, like charged particles raised to a higher state of excitement. Resonance. I just love it. The choice of this particular holiday continued to provide clues to the characters and the story, so for me there was no turning back. I was accelerating swiftly into fertile territory. All of these ideas were working together.
How to Write Groundhog Day
Danny Rubin
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