Not manual labor or factory work, mind you, but the kind of corporate positions in finance, development, consulting and management that are hard to describe but that comfortably support millions of middle- and upper-middle-class families.
So as I worked in the factory, my mind would often drift back to my grandfather.
He also called it a "truly gargantuan battery factory of mind-boggling size".
For a 24-year-old Englishman, hanging out at the Factory was mind-blowing.
After the revolution, Serbia is broken: decrepit factories, twisted minds, embedded pain, corrupted institutions.
Cool, Honestly When Learning Leaders, an organization that puts volunteers in schools, started thinking about stories that would fit the theme "honesty" for a reading on Lincoln's Birthday, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" came to mind.
Some of the tools in Mouth Factory bring to mind that frightening orthodontic headgear worn by unfortunate elementary schoolers, and some look like futuristic musical instruments.
In its stripped-down aesthetic, the plant brings to mind factories in Germany or Norway, where recycling is routine and good design integral to the social compact.
Such a reading connects to the earlier description of the effect of the shells, slaying not only men and jerboas, but "the mind" – the factory of words.
The exhibition "Hopper Drawing," at the Whitney, lets us into the factory of hand and mind that created "Nighthawks," "New York Movie," "Early Sunday Morning," "Office at Night," and other touchstones for which "iconic" is praise too faint.
