re "no strikes for the duration" (Vineland, 77)

[Doug Millison]

Sorry, I omitted the page reference:

Vineland, pp. 289-290
"[...] it was the dark recrudescence of that hard-cased antiunion tradition
which had brought the movie business to California in the first place [..]
In one of American misoneism's most notable hours, a complex system of
accusation, judgment, and disposition, administered by figures like Roy
Brewer of IATSE and Ronald Reagan of the Screen Actors Guild controlled the
working lives of everyone in the industry who'd ever taken a step leftward
of registering to vote as a Democrat."


public domain:
>Doug wnats to argue that there is lots of TRP in
>the RC's moral vision

That's hardly a stretch, given the fact that Pynchon wrote the novel and
necessarily invests himself in every word of it.

>they have such a
>polarized dominance of this list that we can't
>quite get aord in  edgewise.

Strange, I seem to find quite a few posts from others on the P-list, in
this and many other discussion threads, many of them from "public domain."


P.S.  Here are some examples of today's Bush criticism by what  jbor likes
to call  the "alternative media"



June 28, 2002
Flavors of Fraud
By PAUL KRUGMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/28/opinion/28KRUG.html?pagewanted=print&position=
top



Marooned on his fantasy island, Bush stands firm
The lesson from Vietnam is to listen to the people on the ground
Martin Woollacott
Friday June 28, 2002
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,745434,00.html



Leahy Says Bush Seeks Department 'Above the Law'
Wed Jun 26, 3:46 PM ET
By Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON (Reuters)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020626/ts_nm/attack_homeland
_dc_1


Bush Says Palestinians Will Lose Aid if They Keep Arafat
By DAVID E. SANGER
CALGARY, Alberta, June 26 - President Bush told his key allies today that
the United States would cut off aid to the Palestinians if they failed to
embrace the kind of changes he demanded on Monday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/international/middleeast/27PREX.html?ex=102619
2753&ei=1&en=6d1c7ae54be1675c


and here's a really scary one:

Bush to Undergo Colonoscopy, Will Transfer Power to Cheney Temporarily
By Ron Fournier
The Associated Press
Friday, June 28, 2002; 4:20 PM
WASHINGTON - President Bush said he will undergo a colon check Saturday
that will require him to be sedated. The powers of the presidency will be
briefly transferred to Vice President Dick Cheney, he said.
[...]  The procedure uses a flexible tube containing an optical scope that
enables the doctor to view the entire length of the colon. A wire cutter
can be threaded through the tube and used to remove any polyps discovered.
The procedure is generally performed with the patient put under a light
drugged sleep. [...]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62465-2002Jun28.html


Perhaps Pynchon won't pass up the opportunity to deal with this something
like the way he followed drugged Slothrop through the toilet in GR...a
shitty job, yes, but somebody has to do it.