All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour; and then his product would be reckoned up by the
census taker, and jubilant captains of industry would boast of it in their banquet halls, telling how our workers are nearly twice as efficient as those of any other country.
WASHINGTON -- Justice Elena Kagan's father was 3 when the
census taker came to the family's apartment on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, New York, on April 10, 1930.
We're not sure how Hannibal Lecter's quote about eating a
census taker's liver impacted sales of Chianti when The Silence of the Lambs hit cinemas in 1991, but we're sure Bond boosted the number of Martinis, shaken and not stirred, ordered in bars after 1964's Goldfinger was released.
By 1920, the forms used by the
census takers or enumerators were all printed by typeset, but the
census taker wrote in all the answers as they interviewed the householder.
So it's a surprise to find oneself, a few pages later, plunged into a high-concept fable about a dying
census taker and his son driving through a country as surreally like and unlike America as the land of Kafka's Amerika, on a mission that has more in common with the metaphysical investigations of Beckett's tramps and Rilke's angels than anything you'd find under "What we do" on the US Census Bureau's website.
The father, previously a doctor, signs up for a job as an unusual
census taker for a secretive government bureau.
One
census taker told me that children engaged in domestic service were not counted in the 2017 census as they were not members of the households they lived in and that there was no category to document their existence.
The compound had existed in 2015 because a
census taker recounted seeing sacks of corn at the structure.
Barbara was also an active member of the Holden community, working as a
census taker, a poll worker, and as member of the Friends of the Council on Aging.
In the years between records, Mayer has released an assortment of impeccable mixes and singles and DJed consistently all over the world, working as both a tastemaker and a musical
census taker, documenting electronic music's subtle but constant shifts.
Lecter, who recounted how he became so annoyed by a
census taker's questions that he ate him with fava beans "and a nice chianti", is the American Film Institute's No 1 movie villain.
One
census taker, who asked not to be named, yesterday told the Cyprus Mail that he was surprised to find that foreign people had so far been more cooperative than Cypriots.