Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goal: More Growth. The Bakalar brothers run their three plants, which employ 4,300 workers, with an informal touch. In their rambling Wakefield, Mass, headquarters, which was once an underwear mill, the Bakalars share a secretary, avoid written memos, and do most of their business in corridor conferences with staff members. Decisions by Leo, 46, who serves as treasurer and chairman, and David, 34, who is president, have equal power. To justify the price of Transitron's stock (now selling at a steep 45 times projected 1960 earnings) the company is expected to diversify, use the 2.1 million shares...
...nobody is restricted because of mental illness alone: he must show definite signs of disturbance. When he does, the patients (at daily meetings) are usually the first to complain of it, vote to restrict him "behind the clock" (on the boundary wall between ward and corridor). It is by the patients' own decision that razor blades and pointed knives are not left in accessible places on the ward. Collectively, at least, the patients' internal controls are excellent. Adds Dr. Errichetti: "And every member of the staff has had to learn to control his own insecurity and paranoid feelings...
...cell in the old prison-fortress -for instance, Joseph K. of Franz Kafka's The Trial-they are quickly evicted with the first entry of the jailer. He is a redhaired, comic-opera functionary who promptly asks the prisoner for a waltz. As they whirl off down the corridor, it becomes plain what Author Nabokov is up to; he is writing a fantasy-satire whose imagery is surrealist, whose logic is the logic of the dream...
High Maintenance. In Chicago, Conrad Hernbrott's estranged wife let the air out of his automobile tires, took the tubes out of his TV set, locked him out of his room and changed the lock, posted a sign in the corridor of his rooming house reminding him that he hadn't made his support payment...
...Between corridor and operating suite is an "exchange area." Everybody who passes this must first put on conductive booties over his shoes. Inside, he dons sterile cap and gown and scrubs (with antiseptic) for ten minutes. Patients, even on stretchers, get fresh sterile coverings and masks at the door...