Published when Bukowski was in his mid-50's and starting to reach a wider readership, "Factotum" presents the age-old struggle of man against mediocrity.

It is about what Mircea Eliade, the late historian of religions, called the age-old human struggle to survive "the terror of history."

Once again, innocents are at risk when heedless gods resume the age-old struggle between the forces of reason and passion.

Along with vendors shouting the virtues of their wares, cus- tomers shouted scorn in the age-old struggle to get a better price.

All of them, though, were useful additions in the age-old struggle against Omnius.

"It is the age-old struggle between fear and hope," Mr. Clinton declared.

"It's good to see the age-old struggle between the landed and landless connected to the reality of New York tenants."

The victims were mourned tonight as heroes in a tragedy that has pushed Georgia's age-old struggle for viable autonomy to a fiery new intensity.

He read about humanity's age-old racial struggles.

What he symbolized was the age-old struggle of art and science (or, as he preferred, technology) to unite in the service of humanity.