Like Sorcerer's Apprentices toiling and boiling over, our days are drowned in doing and the inescapable consequences of so doing, weighted by waste and lacking renewal.
The latest generation of workers, thin on the ground because of the country's one-child policy, are not keen to toil in factories, nor do they want to work for companies that make goods for export, since the quality standards are far higher than for domestic consumption.
As the dancers sing their tales, the tapestry that emerges covers themes that apply not only to dancers but to anyone who has ever struggled to build a career: Should you sell out or toil away in obscurity doing what you love?
While the privileged playboys and playgirls disport themselves in nightclubs, airy sports stadia and heavenly gardens, a lovely young woman, Maria (Brigitte Helm), takes up the cause of the oppressed machine workers toiling underground, in so doing entrancing Fredersen's idealist son Freder (Gustav Fröhlich).
Finally, our toil was done.
Four years of toil is done.
When we read about a parable Jesus tells concerning two sons -- one who verbally refuses his father's command to work in a vineyard but later changes his mind and obeys, and another who agrees to toil in the vineyard but does not keep his promise -- we might be tempted to moralize it.
In it I toil not, neither do I spin.
Merely identifying such athletes is only half the struggle, for blue-chip high school players do not toil in obscurity.
Unlike the gym-goers of the 80's, Ms. Connor doesn't toil in the name of looking good.
The younger generation has little to do but toil in the fields and tumble into love, and so it is with Lucius Hunt Joaquinn Phoenix), Alice's taciturn son, and Edward's daughter, the spirited — not to say loquacious — Ivy Walker Brycee Dallas Howard).
