![]() ![]() He says, 'Eight.' 'How comes you don't work 18 hours a day like your great-great-grandfather did? You know why? Because four guys got hanged in Chicago in 1886 fighting for the eight-hour day. 'How many hours a day do you work?' I ask. ![]() Suddenly I'm the ancient mariner and I fix him with my glittering eye. He says, 'We despise unions.' I thought, oooooh. He looks toward me with a look of such contempt it's like Noel Coward has just spotted a bug on his collar. He is editor-at-large for The Guardian newspaper and writes a monthly column for The Nation, ''Beneath the Radar''. 'Gary Andrew Younge FAcSS (born January 1969) is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. "I say, 'Labour Day is coming up.' Well, it was the wrong thing to say. Another Day in the Death of America Gary Younge. "But this morning the bus was late and I thought, this is my chance." The rest of the story is his. He had shared the bus stop with this couple for several mornings but they had always failed to acknowledge him. Terkel, who is 95, has long been a Chicago icon, every bit as accessible and integral to the cultural life of the Windy City as Susan Sontag was to New York. ![]() ![]() I mean stunning - Bloomingdales and Neiman Marcus and carrying Vanity Fair." He was in Brooks Brothers and Gucci shoes and carrying the Wall Street Journal under his arm. "This was before the term yuppie was used," he explains. “Studs Terkel was waiting for a number 146 bus alongside two well-groomed business types. ![]()
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