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Dining at the Greeks.

Quadrant

| June 01, 2008 | Ryan, Peter | COPYRIGHT 2008 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. 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

I WAS AMONG the lucky ones from my class who, in 1940, stepped straight from school into a job. Aged sixteen, I became a junior clerk in the public service--an "office boy". Practitioners of "human relations" had not then invented their weird contemporary dead language built on highfalutin terms like "career path". But it was clear enough that I had landed a job for life, provided I turned up on time every morning, and generally kept my nose clean. It was necessary also to steer a tactful course through the savage rivalries of Catholics and Masons which split the service; this was not too hard at such a junior level.

For all practical purposes, 1940 still ...

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