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A Mixed Blessing
When he was still a struggling nobody seeking financial backers for a production of his play A Streetcar named Desire, the great American writer Tennessee Williams is said to have quipped, "The very rich have the most pathetic confidence in the efficacy of small sums!" He meant, of course, that those who don't need to work have only the vaguest understanding of the problems facing those who do. It is easy for persons of leisure (their material wants amply supplied) to compose beautiful essays praising works social importance, historical value and human meaningfulness. But work takes on another face entirely when one sees the bent backs of ...