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Work and worship: exploring the connections.

The Catholic World

| July 01, 1994 | Mitchell, Nathan | COPYRIGHT 1994 Paulist Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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