Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsif...ies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Butte citizen's blood pressure rises and falls with the price of copper. He opposes war "and yet, when you come to think of it..., war would probably raise the price of copper and increase work and wages ..." Sometimes he is half-convinced that Butte is the real capital of the United States and copper instead of gold the proper standard of values. If he is a miner, or has friends or near relatives in the mines, he is often grim and worried. Butte's streets are crowded nightly with persons intent upon a round of pleasure in bars and gambling places, some seeking to forget the fears of daily existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The work of the miner has its unavoidable incidents of discomfort and danger, and these should not be increased by the neglect of ...the owners to provide every practicable safety appliance. Economies which involve a sacrifice of human life are intolerable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound of his p...ick?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I married a miner myself. I had ten children. I've got seven now; thirty-one grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. And I'm ...happy to say not a one's ever crossed a picket line.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuou...s use of space. Cinema ... has access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »